Poll chief uses emergency powers, puts Abra town under Comelec control - Rappler

Election-related violence intensifies in Pilar, Abra, following a shooting incident between the vice mayor's bodyguards and local police

MANILA, Philippines For the first time, the chairman of the Commission on Elections (Comelec) exercised his controversial emergency powers to place an area in the Philippines under the poll body’s co… [+3018 chars]

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