THE Commission on Elections in Bacolod proclaimed on Tuesday congressman-elect incumbent city Mayor Evelio Leonardia, vice mayor-elect Greg Gasataya, and the 12 councilors who won in the May 13 polls.
Despite failing to canvass the remaining four clustered precincts, acting Bacolod City election registrar lawyer Milagros Salud Villanueva officially proclaimed Tuesday night the winners in the Monday polls. Villanueva said the basis of the decision of the board of canvassers (BOCS) in the proclamation of winners was the recently passed en banc resolution of the Comelec that authorized BOCs to proclaim winners if the remaining uncanvassed election returns no longer affect the standing of the winners. She said that, if not for the mislabeling of the CF Cards of the Precinct Count Optical Scan (PCOS) machines, the BOC would have finished the canvassing of the election returns as early as 2 a.m. of May 14. She said the total number of voters in the four uncanvassed clustered precincts totaled only 3,286 and that the number does not affect the margin of votes garnered by the winning congressman, mayor, vice mayor and councilors. The councilors who were proclaimed winners were: El Cid Familiaran with 98,956 votes; Jocelle Batapa-Sigue with 90,270 votes; Bobby Rojas with 86,305; Em Ang with 85,728; Carl Lopez with 85,356; Claudio Puentevella with 83,122; Caesar Distrito with 76,206; Archie Baribar with 72,272; Wilson Gamboa Jr. with 69,034; Alex Paglumutan with 68,380; Sonya Verdeflor with 64,432 and Ann Marie Palermo with 63,419. CARLA CANET
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