THE Commission on Elections (Comelec) has dismissed the petition for a recall election against San Juan City Mayor Guia Gomez for lack of sufficient evidence.

In an eighteen-page decision, the poll body said petitioners Sophia Patricia Gil, Raul Sevilla, Raymond Alzona and Jun Paul Aquino were able to meet the required 20 percent signatures of the 71,225 total registered voters of the city in the last elections but the number of signatories was not enough.

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