The Commission on Elections announced Thursday that the voter registration for the 2025 national and local elections is being eyed in February.

The poll body is planning to hold the registration from the first week of February until September 2024, adding that the Comelec en banc still has to finalize the schedule.

During the last voter registration in 2022, the Comelec received at least 2.5 million applications from December 2022 to January 2023.

Meanwhile, the poll body confirmed that the second bidding for the 2025 elections will be on 8 January. This was confirmed by Comelec Spokesperson John Rex Laudiangco in a Viber message. When asked about the deadline for declaring the bidding winner, he said that winner can be announced within a day, allowing for the declaration of the Bidder with the Lowest Calculated Bid from those declared Eligible.

"Based on the Implementing Rules and Regulations of RA9184, the opening of bids can be completed within one day, allowing for the declaration of the Bidder with the Lowest Calculated Bid from those declared Eligible (from among the bidders who submitted bids)."

"Following this, the mandatory Post Qualification Evaluation will be conducted to validate and verify all documents submitted during the eligibility check, as well as compliance with all technical specifications of FASTrAC," Laudiangco said.

The spokesperson added that under the law, a period of seven to 30 days for the bidders with the lowest bid to be verified and complete required documents.

"As per the rules, there is a period of 7 to 30 days from the declaration of the Bidder with the Lowest Calculated Bid for the verification, validation, and testing of Legal, Technical and Financial Requirements."

"After this, once the Bidder with the Lowest Calculated Bids has passed their Post Qualification Evaluation for their Legal, Technical, and Financial submissions, they may declare the Bidder with the Lowest Calculated and Responsive Bid," Laudiangco stated.