Bill to stop serial poll losers backed

APROPOSED bill that will prohibit politicians who lost three or more consecutive times from running in the same position ever again has gathered momentum after a senior official of the Commission on Elections (Comelec) expressed his support to the measure.

Comelec Commissioner Lucenito Tagle said the bill would greatly help in easing some of the burdens of the poll body noting that perennial losers “should know in the first place that voters do not like them for one reason or another and they have no chance of winning the positions that they aspire”.