MANILA, Philippines — Commission on Elections (Comelec) Chairman George Erwin Garcia said on Wednesday that election offense and disqualification charges will be filed against Pasig City congressional candidate Atty. Christian "Ian" Sia for alleged violation of the poll body's anti-discrimination and fair campaigning guidelines.

"At 10 a.m. today, disqualification case and election offense charges will be filed by our Task Force Safe [on Safeguarding Against Fair & Exclusion in Elections against a candidate in Pasig who was deemed to have violated [the Comelec) anti-discrimination policy," said Garcia in a radio interview.

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