Comelec names 38 places as areas under serious threats in 2025 elections
Members of the Quezon City Police District conduct inspections at a Comelec checkpoint along Agham Road in Quezon City on April 17, 2018 as part of the implementation of the COMELEC gun ban. (File photo from EDWIN BACASMAS)
MANILA, Philippines — The Commission on Elections (Comelec) has identified 38 areas of concern under the red category due to serious or grave threats amid the preparations for this year’s polls.
Based on Comelec’s Thursday data, 32 areas under the red category are in Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM), two each in Cagayan Valley and Bicol Region, and one each in Western and Eastern Visayas.
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The poll body also identified 177 areas under orange category (with serious threats); 188 under yellow (with a history of election-related incidents); and 1,239 under green (or no security concerns).
Under the orange category, 48 areas are in the Bicol; 22 in BARMM; 17 in Caraga; 16 in Central Visayas; 15 in Cagayan Valley; 13 in Eastern Visayas; 12 in Mimaropa; 11 in Soccsksargen; nine in Western Visayas; eight in Northern Mindanao; three in Zamboanga Peninsula; one each in Central Luzon, Calabarzon and Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR).
Most areas under yellow are found in BARMM at 49; followed by Northern Mindanao (22); Ilocos (19); Zamboanga Peninsula (18); Central Luzon and Eastern Visayas (13); Caraga (11); CAR (10); Cagayan Valley (nine); Calabarzon, Western Visayas and Central Visayas (seven); Soccsksargen (two); and Mimaropa (one).
In a Viber message, Comelec spokesperson John Rex Laudiangco said the list of areas earlier recommended by the Philippine National Police and Armed Forces of the Philippines was approved by the Comelec en banc.
