{"id":379827,"date":"2022-11-17T06:06:34","date_gmt":"2022-11-16T20:06:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=379827"},"modified":"2022-11-17T06:06:34","modified_gmt":"2022-11-16T20:06:34","slug":"kilili-says-the-cec-deserves-praise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/kilili-says-the-cec-deserves-praise\/","title":{"rendered":"Kilili says the CEC deserves praise"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_379828\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-379828\" style=\"width: 282px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Gregorio-Kilili-C.-Sablan-PW.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-379828\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Gregorio-Kilili-C.-Sablan-PW-282x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"282\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-379828\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gregorio Kilili C. Sablan<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Delegate Gregorio Kilili C. Sablan (D-MP) said the Commonwealth Election Commission deserves praise for seeing the Nov. 8 general election through successfully.<\/p>\n<p>In his e-kilili newsletter over the weekend, Sablan said that last week\u2019s election was the first since 2018 when typhoon recovery or a global COVID-19 pandemic were not a significant barrier to holding elections in the Marianas and, except for the gubernatorial runoff, the election season is now over.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo all who ran for office\u2014win or lose\u2014thank you for giving voters a broad array of voices to choose from, keeping our democracy, and remember: you civic duty is not yet done this year,\u201d the delegate said.<\/p>\n<p>Sablan urged people to follow CEC\u2019s website for updates on dates and polling locations for the runoff election for governor and lieutenant governor.<\/p>\n<p>Sablan ran unopposed for his eight term in the U.S. Congress under the Democratic Party.<\/p>\n<p>CEC executive director Kayla S. Igitol said yesterday that Sablan knows because he was once a CEC executive director. \u201cHe\u2019s speaking from one being inside here,\u201d Igitol said.<\/p>\n<p>CEC has received criticisms from some candidates and people in the community after the commission completed the tabulation of votes after about 21 hours. <em>(Ferdie de la Torre) <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Delegate Gregorio Kilili C. Sablan (D-MP) said the Commonwealth Election Commission deserves praise for seeing&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":379829,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[732,23771],"class_list":["post-379827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-cec","tag-kilili"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379827","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=379827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379827\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/379829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}