The Fee on Elections launches Venture SURI, the net submission platform for statements of contribution and expenditure, on Thursday, July 3, 2025. — Photograph from Comelec/Workplace of Comelec Chairman
MANILA, Philippines — Election candidates will now be capable of submit their statements of contribution and expenditures (SOCEs) on-line via a platform launched by the Fee on Elections (Comelec).
The Comelec on Thursday delicate launched Venture SURI (Siyasatin, Unawain, Resolbahin, at Ipanagot) forward of its full implementation for the primary Bangsamoro Parliamentary elections on October 13.
The submitting of SOCEs have been beforehand accomplished manually, both submitted on the Comelec primary workplace for nationwide candidates and party-lists, or at a Comelec workplace the place native candidates filed their certificates of candidacies.
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In line with Comelec Commissioner Nelson Celis, the top of the fee’s digitalization program, the platform goals to modernize marketing campaign finance administration to make sure transparency and accountability.
“It exhibits our renewed perspective on how we should fulfill our constitutional mandate to make sure that the elections should not solely peaceable and orderly however they’re auditable, clear, simply, and honest equivalent to violators of election legal guidelines and guidelines are held accountable,” Celis stated in his speech.
Celis additionally stated that the platform can be risk-free of any vulnerabilities and hacking as soon as it’s applied.
When requested of the measures accomplished to make sure its security measures, Celis stated that the ballot physique coordinated with the Division of Data and Communications Expertise.
“They made positive that via the vulnerability evaluation, the SURI Venture is free from any attainable intrusion or attainable hacking,” Celis stated.
In the meantime, Comelec Chairman George Erwin Garcia stated that the submission of SOCEs for the Bangsamoro Parliamentary elections could also be accomplished manually and on-line because the ballot physique expects that many candidates will nonetheless navigate the brand new on-line platform.
Garcia additionally reiterated the significance of submitting for SOCE throughout the 30-day interval after an election as it’s mandated beneath the Republic Act 7166.
The legislation additionally states that “[n]o particular person elected to any public workplace shall enter upon the duties of his workplace till he has filed the assertion of contributions and expenditures herein required.”
READ: DILG maintains no elected official can assume workplace with out submitting Soce
Platform walkthrough
Demonstrating the platform in its beta model, Comelec’s Political Finance and Affairs Division (PFAD) Data Officer Leo Lim stated that the candidates should first create an account within the platform to submit their SOCEs.
Photograph by Dianne Sampang/Inquirer
As soon as an account is efficiently created, the candidates can now obtain and reply the separate varieties for the contributions and expenditures.
As soon as the respective paperwork are appropriately crammed out and uploaded beneath the “Contributions” and “Expenditures” tabs, the SOCE can now be seen beneath the “Report Technology” tab.
Photograph by Dianne Sampang/Inquirer
Underneath the “Report Technology” tab, the candidates can obtain “Acknowledgement of Submission” to acknowledge the submission of SOCE.
Nevertheless, Lim clarified that the acknowledgment is totally different from a Certificates of Compliance, which may solely be issued as soon as the PFAD certifies that the SOCE is compliant with all the necessities wanted.
Photograph by Dianne Sampang/Inquirer
Lim added that after the SOCE is finalized and generated, it can’t be edited within the platform. The candidate who needs to have it amended should inform the PFAD first.
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Lim additionally shared that the general public can even view SOCEs via a special platform. He famous that this platform continues to be beneath the beta model. /das
