By Beverly T. Natividad
Inquirer

MANILA, Philippines–If the police can’t do it, perhaps the citizenry can.

Now considered as a “fugitive from justice,” Maguindanao election supervisor Lintang Bedol is now being offered for citizen arrest.

As Bedol continued to evade an arrest warrant issued against him, Commission on Elections Acting Chairman Resurreccion Borra cited on Monday the right and the power of every citizen to arrest the poll supervisor on site and bring him to the nearest local police.

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By Dona Pazzibugan
Inquirer

MANILA, Philippines–Former Maguindanao election supervisor Lintang Bedol will soon be charged with electoral sabotage for losing the municipal election results in the province during the May senatorial elections.

Resurreccion Borra, who took over as acting Commission on Elections chairman following Benjamin Abalos Sr.’s resignation, told a Senate budget hearing last week that the poll body would pursue filing criminal charges against Bedol.

Borra and Commissioners Nicodemo Ferrer, Florentino Tuason and Romeo Brawner appeared before Senators Juan Ponce Enrile, chairman of the Senate finance committee and Miriam Defensor-Santiago, to appeal for no further cuts to the Comelec’s proposed P4.3 billion-budget for next year.

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