COMELEC to get new home in Pasay

By:  Mayen Jaymalin

The Philippine Star, 13 February 2012

MANILA, Philippines - The Commission on Elections (Comelec) is finally getting a new home after the poll body purchased a lot along Roxas Boulevard worth P1.2 billion where their new building would be built soon.

“The building will come in a few years later, this is a long-term plan and an investment as well,” Comelec Chairman Sixto Brillantes said.

COMELEC Bldg. at Palacio del Gobernador

Brillantes said the poll body had decided to build a new office building, five years after a fire gutted their old headquarters in Intramuros, Manila.

The poll body is currently leasing the 5th, 7th, and 8th floors of the Palacio del Gobernador building in Intramuros beside the Manila Cathedral.

Brillantes said the poll body bought the lot at the reclamation area near EDSA in Pasay City from their budget of P3.2 billion.

He said they intend to build a three building compound with the main structure planned to be an 11-story structure that would house the administrative offices.

“It will be very convenient for everybody,” said Brillantes.

At this time, the Comelec is the only constitutional body that does not have its own offices.

Brillantes said he hopes to complete the project before he steps down from office in 2015.