Saidamen Balt Pangarungan (born September 23, 1950) is a Filipino businessman, lawyer and politician who previously served as the ad interim Chairman of the Commission on Elections from March–June 2022.

He previously served as the secretary of the National Commission on Muslim Filipinos in the Duterte administration, and was the governor of Lanao del Sur from 1986 and again from 1988 to 1992.

From the Vatican, Pope John Paul II appealed to their captors to release the nuns who were later brought to Lumbayanague across south of Lake Lanao.

After 6 months of ocular investigations and upon his recommendations, President Aquino signed an executive order abolishing some 2,000 ghost barangays in the two Lanao provinces, saving the government billions of pesos in regular allotments to the non-existent or uninhabited villages.

As undersecretary, he also helped craft an executive order granting regular salaries and allowances to barangay (village) officials in the country.

[5] On July 9, 2018, President Rodrigo Duterte appointed Pangarungan as secretary with cabinet rank and chairman, National Commission on Muslim Filipinos (NCMF).

Pangarungan's priority agenda was to reform the NCMF long dogged by corruption, ensure a comfortable and affordable annual Hajj (Pilgrimage) to Makkah, Saudi Arabia for thousands of Filipino pilgrims, and led a joint nationwide project with the United Nation Development Program (UNDP) and the Japanese Government in strengthening national and local resilience against violent extremism.

Pangarungan launched the project at the Mindanao State University in Marawi City on January 23, 2019 in time with the twin explosions in a cathedral in Jolo, Sulu that killed twenty parishioners and 111 wounded.

Pangarungan also activated and implemented the 24 mandates of the Commission under its NCMF charter including national peace-building, the development to greater heights of halal, shariah, Islamic finance, and the Madrasah educational system.

He proactively responded to the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic through the Commission's ongoing relief operations and other assistance to the calls for help by more than 200,000 muslim families nationwide.

[8] On March 7, 2022, Pangarungan was appointed by President Rodrigo Duterte as ad-interim Chairman, Commission on Elections with a term of seven years until February 2, 2029.

[13] He is married to Princess Johayra Diamond Ali Pacasum Pangarungan, the Bailabi a Gaus sa Ranao and former assemblywoman of ARMM.

His paternal great-grandfather Sultan Pandapatan of Bayang led Maranaw resistance against the American forces stationed in Malabang, Lanao del Sur, under Colonel Frank Baldwin with 600 soldiers composed of the 27th Infantry, 15th Cavalry under the command of Captain Pershing and 25th Battery of Fields.