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| Dumaguete City, Philippines | Friday, March 30, 2007 |
1st
district may be placed
under Comelec: Advincula
BY MARICAR ARANAS
The entire First Congressional District of Oriental Negros will probably be placed under the Commission on Elections control, provincial election supervisor Manuel Advincula said. Advincula said he recently received a memorandum directive from COMELEC Central office ordering him to submit a report and recommendation of the La Libertad ambush that killed seven persons, including a barangay captain, and to assess the situation in the district.
The first district includes the municipalities of Manjuyod, Bindoy, Ayungon, Jimalalud, La Libertad, Guihulngan, Vallehermoso and Canlaon City.
Advincula said at present he is collating reports from
Philippine National Police and the National Bureau of Investigation
where he will base his recommendation to the COMELEC en banc. 
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Paras
vs. Paras, Rep. Jacinto Paras said that if his older brother, Jerome, also a former congressman for three terms, is the official candidate of their family, this will not carry any weight but will only be persuasive as far as politics is concerned The younger Paras was responding to criticisms from another elder
brother, Jerry, that he is "greedy" for not complying with their
signed agreement in August 2003, a year before the 2004 elections.
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Peace
rally staged A peace rally was staged in Guihulngan, Oriental Negros to condemn atrocities allegedly committed by the New Peoples Army that marked its 38th founding anniversary yesterday. A press release from the 11 Infantry Battalion of the Army said
the participants were San Carlos City, Don Salvador Benedicto in
Negros Occidental, and the municipalities of Vallehermoso, La Libertad,
and Guihulngan in Oriental Negros. About 1,500 rallyists on board
eleven vehicles started the caravan from Crossing Bagawines, Vallehermoso
towards Poblacion Guihulngan in Oriental Negros. |
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