{"id":374830,"date":"2022-08-25T06:06:58","date_gmt":"2022-08-24T20:06:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=374830"},"modified":"2022-08-25T06:06:58","modified_gmt":"2022-08-24T20:06:58","slug":"cec-to-decide-tomorrow-who-are-qualified-to-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/cec-to-decide-tomorrow-who-are-qualified-to-run\/","title":{"rendered":"CEC to decide tomorrow who are qualified to run"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_374831\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-374831\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/sablan-taimanao.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-374831\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/sablan-taimanao-1024x531.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"498\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-374831\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jesus I. Sablan and Alfredo T. Taimanao<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Commonwealth Election Commission board is expected to certify tomorrow, Friday, those found to be qualified to run in the Nov. 8 general elections.<\/p>\n<p>CEC board chair Jesus I. Sablan set a board meeting tomorrow at 1:30pm at CEC\u2019s conference room in Susupe and included certification of candidates in the agenda.<\/p>\n<p>Sablan also placed in the agenda the candidacy nominating petition of Alfredo T. Taimanao and approval of ballot layout.<\/p>\n<p>CEC executive director Kayla S. Igitol said yesterday that with respect to Taimanao\u2019s case, the commissioners will deliberate during the meeting and come up with a decision.<\/p>\n<p>Taimanao, a U.S. Army veteran, is running for Rota mayor as an independent.<\/p>\n<p>The commissioners held a hearing last Monday on Taimanao\u2019s appeal from CEC\u2019s challenge to his candidacy for not meeting the residency requirement.<\/p>\n<p>After the hearing, chair Sablan placed the matter under advisement.<\/p>\n<p>The commissioners also held an executive session Monday regarding the candidacy of Edwin Raymond Quitugua, who is seeking a seat in the Saipan Municipal Council.<\/p>\n<p>Quitugua failed to appear after he called CEC executive director Igitol that morning, Monday, that he could not make it at the hearing as he was in the hospital.<\/p>\n<p>CEC also challenged Quitugua\u2019s candidacy for failing to meet the residency requirement.<\/p>\n<p>There are 102 candidates for 48 positions that are up for grabs in the election. The CEC board has to certify the candidates who meet the requirements of election law.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Commonwealth Election Commission board is expected to certify tomorrow, Friday, those found to be&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":374831,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[732,133],"class_list":["post-374830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-cec","tag-run"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=374830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374830\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/374831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}