Get Certificate Of Candidacy For Punong Barangay

Each council is headed by a barangay captain, and comprises seven members all titled barangay kagawad (barangay councilor), and the chairman of the Sangguniang Kabataan, the barangay's youth council, for a total of eight members.

- (a) There shall be in each Barangay a Punong Barangay, seven (7) Sangguniang Barangay members, the Sangguniang Kabataan chairman, a Barangay Secretary, and a Barangay treasurer.

A barangay kagawad, abbreviated as kgwd., known in English as a barangay councilor and in Filipino as a konsehal ng barangay, is an elected government official who is a member of the Sangguniang Barangay, or Barangay Council, of a particular barangay.

A barangay captain (Filipino: kapitan ng barangay), or a barangay chairman (Filipino: punong barangay), is the highest elected official in a barangay, the smallest level of administrative divisions of the Philippines. Sitios and puroks are sub-divisions of barangays, but their leadership is not elected.

(b) The Barangay secretary shall be of legal age, a qualified voter and an actual resident of the Barangay concerned.

—No person shall be eligible to be a barangay official unless he is a citizen of the Philippines, a registered voter and actual resident of the barangay for at least six months immediately preceding the election, able to read and write and, on the date of the election, is at least twenty-one years of age, and who is ...

City Supervision over Barangay Affairs. - The city, through the city mayor, shall have primary responsibility for general supervision over the government of every barangay within its territorial jurisdiction to ensure that it acts within the scope of its assigned powers and functions.

Registered voters of the barangay where they intend to run for office and residents thereof for at least one (1) year immediately preceding the day of the election.