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UAE: Enrollment period for Philippine overseas online voting moved to March 20
The official election day is May 12, 2025, but for overseas Filipino expats — including those in the UAE — online voting will run for 30 days from April 13 to May 12
- PUBLISHED: Thu 6 Mar 2025, 7:53 PM
The enrollment period for overseas Filipinos’ online voting for the 2025 Philippine midterm elections has been moved to March 20 and will run until May 7, the Philippine Embassy in Abu Dhabi announced in a Facebook post on Thursday.
The original schedule set by the Philippine Commission on Elections (Comelec) was from March 10 to May 12, 2025.
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This will be the first time that internet voting will be conducted — which means no more queues at the Philippine missions to cast ballots — but registered Filipino voters in the UAE are required to pre-enroll before they can participate to elect 12 senators and a party-list representative.
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Link for the pre-enrollment will be posted on the official websites and social media pages of Comelec and the Philippine missions.
Check first
The Philippine Embassy advised their kababayan (countrymen) to first check if they are registered overseas voters before they can pre-enroll. They can check their names in the certified list of voters (CLOV) released by Comelec:
For those registered in Abu Dhabi – tinyurl.com/CLOVAbuDhabi
For those registered in Dubai and the Northern Emirates – tinyurl.com/CLOVDubai
The official election day is May 12, 2025, but for overseas Filipino expats — including those in the UAE — online voting will run for 30 days from April 13 to May 12.
Comelec said voting can be done on mobile phones, tablets, laptops, or desktop computers with built-in cameras or that can be plugged with a camera and capable of connecting to the internet running on any web browser.
In case of any issues, however, voting can still be cast physically at the Philippine Embassy in Abu Dhabi or the Consulate-General in Dubai.
Turnout of Filipino voters
The UAE is consistently among the top five countries and territories with the highest turnout of Filipino voters in every election.
During the presidential elections in May 2022, Dubai saw a total of 60,393 Filipino expats who cast their votes – it was the highest number of overseas voters among Philippine foreign service posts all over the world since overseas voting began in 2004.
According to the CLOV released by Comelec, as of December 2024, there are 189,396 registered Filipino voters across the UAE — 123,502 of them are from Dubai and the Northern Emirates and 65,894 are in Abu Dhabi.
