BARANGAY OFFICIALS LOOK EXEMPTED

Yesterday in the local Office of the COMELEC, the new Initao Municipal Election Officer Ma. Lorie Toledo read a COMELEC en banc resolution that elected officials from up down to municipal level are subject to fines of one to 30 thousand pesos for failure to file their election expenditures as required. It may be recalled that last year, COMELEC Chairman Sixto Brillantes told the press that those who failed must stepdown from their occupied positions but over-ruled by the Supreme Court. Toledo cited the exemption of barangay officials from the ruling. But if there are complaints, she said, these will be treated by the legal department of the COMELEC central office.