QUEZON City Mayor Herbert Bautista has ordered all city hall departments and offices to lend their government-issued vehicles for use for the forthcoming barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan elections on Monday.
Bautista reminded candidates to unite and work together to ensure an orderly and peaceful conduct of the local polls.
In a memorandum released by the QC General Services Department, all city government vehicles will be used to transport ballot boxes, election forms, supplies and other paraphernalia for distribution to designated polling centers within and around Quezon City.
The vehicles were used to ferry election inspectors and other election materials from May 12 to May 14.
“It is in this regard that all concerned are enjoined to temporarily turn over the government vehicles (buses, commuter vans, AUVs, and multicabs, among others,)” the memorandum read.
Bautista urged the candidates from the city’s 142 barangays to commit to a peaceful and orderly elections.
“Let us set aside politics,” he said.
Meanwhile, Vice Mayor Joy Belmonte said the barangay and SK elections would be a critical one for the youth.
She warned she would again recommend the permanent abolition of SK to Congress if elected youth leaders would not perform well or go back to their old ways.
“This is a very crucial election for the youth because if we don’t see any changes. May be, there’ll be new arguments for its abolition, permanently,” she said.
