President Duterte has finally revealed his reasons for appointing former Interior and Local Government Undersecretary Saidamen Pangarungan and election lawyer George Garcia as chairperson and commissioner of the Commission on Elections.
President Duterte has finally revealed his reasons for appointing former Interior and Local Government Undersecretary Saidamen Pangarungan and election lawyer George Garcia as chairperson and commissioner of the Commission on Elections .
The President said he is expected Pangarungan to make some statements about the Comelec issues, including the supposed printing of ballots without witnesses or the poll body’s partnership with online news organization Rappler. Pangarungan was an Interior undersecretary during the administration of the late former President Corazon Aquino.Garcia’s appointment
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