Philippine Asian News Today Vol 20 No 02 | Page 13

January 16 - 31, 2018
BUSINESS NEWS
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ABS-CBN TFC, DFA, COMELEC, CFO and OWWA
to pursue new global campaigns for overseas Filipinos in
2018 – 2019
QUEZON CITY, PHILIPPINES
--- The registration for the 2019 Phil-
ippine National elections has gone
into full swing and key agencies cater-
ing to overseas Filipinos are prepar-
ing to launch new global campaigns. 

In relation to this, officers
from ABS-CBN The Filipino Channel
(TFC), the Department of Foreign Af-
fairs Overseas Voting Secretariat (DFA
– OVS), the Commission on Elections
Office for Overseas Voting (COM-
ELEC – OFOV), Commission on Fili-
pinos Overseas (CFO), and Overseas
Workers’ Welfare and Administration
(OWWA) met this January to work on
these campaigns that strengthen Fili-
pino democracy and present a more
positive narrative of the global Filipino
migration.
Partners since 2013 for the over-
seas voting campaign DFA – OVS,
COMELEC - OFOV  and TFC - the
flagship brand of ABS-CBN Global
Ltd., the organization that oversees all
international subsidiaries of the Phil-
ippines’ largest media and entertain-
ment network, ABS-CBN Corporation
- are looking at renewing ties to signif-
icantly increase the number of over-
seas Filipino registrants and voters.

Since the launch of the over-
seas voting registration in December
2017, new OV registrants have reached
388,370 or 43% of the 900,974 target
of the foreign service, according to
data from DFA. With push