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Poll Commissioner Aimee Ferolino will sit as the acting chair of the Comelec's Committee on Firearms and Security Concerns after the en banc deferred the deliberations on the resignation of Commissioner Socorro Inting as the chairperson of the panel.

“The bestowal on the Chairman of the Commission of the power to grant gun ban exemptions and place Election Areas of Concern under COMELEC Control based on the vague and arbitrary phrase of ‘meritorious and urgent cases’ essentially rendered futile or pointless the existence and functions of the CBSFC,” Inting said. “I cannot in good conscience continue to remain as CBSFC Chairperson when this same position has already been made inutile due to th...