CONGRESS may no longer need to convene a bicameral conference committee to discuss the postponement of the October 2017 barangay (village) and Sangguniang Kabataan (youth council) elections since the leadership of the House of Representatives had expressed its intent to adopt the Senate bill.

Senate majority leader Vicente Sotto 3rd said Speaker Pantaleon Alvarez and House Majority Leader Rodolfo Farinas informed him about the willingness of the lower chamber to adopt the measure passed by the Senate on Wednesday resetting the polls in October 2017 to the second Monday of May 2018.

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