BACOLOD CITY — The Commission on Elections (Comelec) in the Negros Island Region (NIR) has been ordered to focus in Negros Oriental, which has a history of election-related violence, Lionel Marcos Castillano, Comelec-NIR regional director, said on Thursday.
BACOLOD CITY — The Commission on Elections in the Negros Island Region has been ordered to focus in Negros Oriental , which has a history of election-related violence, Lionel Marcos Castillano, Comelec-NIR regional director, said on Thursday.Castillano, with assistant regional director Dindo Maglasang, met with local election officers in Negros Occidental on Thursday in Bacolod City.
But in the Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan Elections last year in Negros Oriental, it was the most peaceful elections in the province, without any untoward election-related violence, said Castillano.There are 2,992,818 registered voters in the Negros Island Region as of July 15 this year, Comelec-NIR data showed.As of the July 15 Election Registration Board hearing result, Negros Occidental logged 1,954,679 registered voters, Negros Oriental with 959,228 and Siquijor with 78,911.
Ordered To Focus On Negros Oriental
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