BALANGA CITY: Re-elected Mayor Jesse Concepcion of Mariveles, Bataan on Wednesday filed two libel cases against four town councilors and the publisher, editor-in-chief and columnist of Hirit (Boses ng Masa) of Quezon City.

The mayor lodged the complaint with the provincial prosecutors’ office in Balanga City. He charged Mariveles town councilors Joseph Peryra, Amante Verzosa, Jocelyn Castañeda and Joel Ibarra as the sources of the article and opinion column published by the tabloid.

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