Poll peace covenant signing in Dipolog

DIPOLOG CITY: As the May 9, 2016 national and local elections nearing, the Philippine National Police (PNP) together with the Commission on Elections (COMELEC) and Philippine Army (PA) recently held here a unity walk and peace covenant signing by all candidates for city mayor, vice mayor and councilors to ensure honest and peaceful balloting.

All local candidates from opposing political camps turned up and pledged to respect the electoral exercise by not “employing any form of violence, force or threat that may impair, impede, or unduly influence the free exercise of people’s right of suffrage.”