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Johnson Manabat

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<p>MANILA — The Commission on Elections (Comelec) on Wednesday condemned the killing of a local aspirant for the 2025 polls in South Cotabato.</p><p>Former Barangay Bukay Pait chairman Jose Osorio, who filed his candidacy for <span id="isPasted" style="color:rgb(65, 65, 65);letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:left;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:normal;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;display:inline !important;float:none">vice mayor of Tantangan, South Cotabato in the 2025 midterm elections,</span> was shot dead Monday inside the kitchen of his eatery in that town.</p><div><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/2024/11/16/comelec-says-1st-field-testing-for-2025-elections-is-successful-1709">• COMELEC says 1st field testing for 2025 elections is &#x27;successful&#x27;</a></div><p><span id="isPasted" style="color:rgb(65, 65, 65);letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:left;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:normal;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;display:inline !important;float:none">&quot;We condemn in the highest possible terms this senseless killings. Sana naman, hindi ito election-related,” said <span id="isPasted" style="color:rgb(65, 65, 65);letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:left;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:normal;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;display:inline !important;float:none">Comelec chairman George Erwin Garcia i</span></span>n an ambush interview in Pasay City.</p><div><span id="isPasted" style="color:rgb(65, 65, 65);letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:left;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:normal;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;display:inline !important;float:none">Garcia promised to use the commission&#x27;s full resources to prevent these kinds of violence from happening again as the midterm election approaches.</span></div><p>&quot;The Comelec will definitely use all its powers and resources and with the help of our partners to prevent these kinds of violence when the proper time comes and that is the election period,&quot; he said.</p><p>Garcia said the commission has no power yet to declare a specific place under its control. </p><p>&quot;Ang kapangyarihan po namin ay papasok pa lamang sa Enero, &#x27;yan po ang tinatawag na election period. Wala po kaming kapangyarihang maglagay sa Comelec control sa kahit ano mang panig ng bansa o i-classify ang isang lugar as area of concern,&quot; Garcia explained.</p><p>(Our authority will only come in January, during the election period. We cannot yet put any area under Comelec control or to classify it as an area of concern)</p><p>&quot;Ito pong lahat ng ito ay law enforcement issue and therefore, nananawagan tayo sa ating DILG, PNP na kaagad sana na maaresto ang mga responsible dito,&quot; he said.</p><p>(This is a law enforcement issue, therefore we call on the Department of the Interior and Local Government and Philippine National Police to arrest those responsible for this)</p><div><br/></div><div><strong>RELATED VIDEO</strong></div><div><span class="fr-video fr-deletable fr-fvc fr-dvb fr-draggable" contenteditable="false" draggable="true"><iframe width="640" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/aYeyrPXwJUQ?&amp;wmode=opaque&amp;rel=0" frameBorder="0" allowfullscreen="" class="fr-draggable"></iframe></span><br/></div>

<p>Former Barangay Bukay Pait chairman Jose Osorio was shot dead Monday inside the kitchen of his eatery in Tantangan town..</p>

Former Barangay Bukay Pait chairman Jose Osorio was shot dead Monday inside the kitchen of his eatery in Tantangan town..

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Comelec condemns killing of vice-mayoral aspirant in South Cotabato

Johnson Manabat,

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Published November 20, 2024 01:48 PM PHT

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