For failing to register as voters in this week’s barangay elections, the Commission on Elections (Comelec) suspended the proclamation of almost 500 winning candidates.

The poll body said that it had discovered that hundreds of candidates were not registered as voters, including 90 persons who ran for barangay captain.

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