The Commission on Appointments on Wednesday, 7 September confirmed the ad interim appointments of George Erwin Garcia and Karlo Alexei Nograles as chair of the Commission on Elections and Civil Service Commission, respectively.

Garcia and Nograles both faced the CA in June after being appointed by then President Rodrigo Duterte, however, the constitutional body bypassed their appointments due to the lack of quorum.

The decision was made upon the motion of then-Senate Majority Leader Juan Miguel "Migz" Zubiri to give then President-elect Ferdinand Marcos Jr. a chance to pick his preferred choices for the said positions. 

Garcia, along with then Comelec Chair Saidamen Pangarungan and commissioner Aimee Neri suffered the same fate. 

Last 1 August, two months after vacating his post, President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. tapped Garcia, this time, to head the poll body.

During the body's deliberation, Garcia highlighted the accomplishments of the poll body during the recently-concluded 2022 national and local elections last May.

"During the conduct of the 2022 national and local elections, we were able to have 84.1 percent of the total registered voters, who cast their vote," he said.

"It was so far, the highest in the history of the country. Likewise, during the 2022 national and local elections, we were able to have only 23 election-related violence — the most peaceful election so far in our history," he added.

Garcia also stressed that the poll body only took eight days to proclaim the winners of the 2022 senatorial race, as well as the winners of the lower house elections. 

He vowed to surpass the accomplishments of the Comelec in the 2022 national elections