Philippine Consulate General, Hamburg intensifies oav registration drive in northern Germany 

19 June 2006 — Acting Head of Post and Consul Queenie C. Mangunay of the Philippine Consulate General in Hamburg, Germany reported to the Department of Foreign Affairs that the Consulate has intensified its efforts at disseminating information about Overseas Absentee Voting (OAV) in northern Germany, calling on Filipinos in that region to register as overseas absentee voters. 

Consul Mangunay, in her meetings with the Filipino community in northern Germany, urged all qualified Filipinos to register “as their contribution to nation-building and national development.” 

She reported that the Committee on Overseas Absentee Voting of the Philippine Commission on Elections (COMELEC), in a letter signed by Committee Chairman Florentino A. Tuason, Jr., has commended the early efforts of the Consulate to bring to the attention of overseas Filipinos the conduct of registration. 

Consul Mangunay added that based on the tally of the OAV Secretariat as of 15 June 2006, the Consulate registered 264 voters, ranking sixth among Philippine Foreign Service Posts in Europe in terms of registration figures even though the Consulate’s areas of jurisdiction are not densely populated with overseas Filipinos. 

In the Consulate’s OAV registration efforts, the Consul is joined by deputized COMELEC representatives Consulate Finance Officer Ferdinand O. Cena and Consular Assistant Elizabeth M. Margallo.  The OAV registration period began on 1 October 2005 and will end on 31 August 2006.  END