The Commission on Elections (Comelec) has indefinitely suspended overseas absentee voter (OAV) registration in Libya and four other areas due to escalating political tension and armed conflict there.

Commissioner Lucenito Tagle, who heads the Office for Overseas Voting, on Tuesday said the suspension of the OAV registration in Libya, Syria, Iraq, Gaza Strip and Ukraine resulted from a suggestion by the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA).

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