PH Consulate General in Nagoya Successfully Concludes First Overseas Voting

Consul General to Nagoya Celeste Vinzon-Balatbat with the officers and staff of the Philippine Consulate General in Nagoya pose in front of the chancery during the last day of the overseas voting on 9 May 2022. (Nagoya PCG Photo)

NAGOYA 23 May 2022 – The Philippine Consulate General in Nagoya successfully concluded the conduct of the one-month overseas voting of over 8,000 active Filipino voters in Nagoya, Japan. This is the first overseas voting the Consulate General conducted.

“Our tasks as representatives, deputized by the Commission on Elections (COMELEC), started in 2021 with updating the voters’ list, and most of our election-related work had taken place in recent weeks, with the Consulate temporarily converted into an assembly line for labor-intensive tasks”, said Consul General to Nagoya Celeste Vinzon-Balatbat.

After the voting, Consulate representatives counted the votes using the Vote Counting Machines (VCMs) and brought the election results to the Philippine Embassy in Tokyo for consolidation and onward transmittal to COMELEC.

Consul General Balatbat thanked fellow Filipinos in Japan for contributing to the orderly conduct of overseas voting and exercising their right to vote—and thus their right to choose the country’s next leaders and determine the destiny of the nation. END

An article on the subject by Consul General Balatbat was published in the Chunichi Shimbun here with an English translation here.