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FOR PEACEFUL BARMM POLLS. Comelec-BARMM deputy regional director Renault Macarambon (left) and Brig. Gen. Arthur Cabalona, police director for BARMM (right), shown in these undated photos, vow to help ensure peaceful national and local balloting in the region. Election and police officials in the BARMM have started the series of their coordinated meetings Wednesday (Feb. 9, 2022) on election hotspots in the region. (Photo courtesy of Comelec-BARMM/PRO-BARMM) COTABATO CITY - The Commission on Elections (Comelec) in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) is finalizing its li...

Government is targeting “private armed groups” who act to intimidate voters.

BY GILBERT P. BAYORAN Another local government unit in southern Negros is being assessed by the Commission on Elections as a possible “area of concern”

Philippine Army chief Lieutenant General Romeo Brawner Jr. has instructed troops to destroy private armed groups who may threaten the peaceful conduct of the May 2022 elections.

(Photo courtesy Of PRO 12) KORONADAL CITY-The Regional Monitoring Action Center (REMAC) of the Police Regional Office in Soccsksargen (PRO-12) has not logged any violator nor untoward incident during the first day of the Commission on Elections (Comelec) gun ban in the region. The 150-day nationwide gun ban concerning the upcoming national and local elections in May took effect midnight of January 9. Brig. Gen. Alexander Tagum, the PRO-12 director, said they have deployed police personnel for the election gun ban and everything went well so far in the inspection process at checkpoints. "C...