MANILA, Philippines — With all the election winners proclaimed, the Commission on Elections (Comelec) is preparing to face a Senate investigation on technical glitches that marred the midterm polls. “We will just rest for a while and then we will prepare to answer those issues before the Senate,” Comelec Chairman Sheriff Abas said yesterday. Abas said the poll body would undertake a post-election assessment as part of their preparations for the Senate probe. MoratoriumMalacañang yesterday called for a moratorium on what it called “excessive politicking” as it greeted the newly proclaimed winners of the senatorial race. “We express confidence that these newly proclaimed senators will (show) fealty to their oath, be loyal to the Constitution, obedient to the laws of the land.

Source: Philippine Star May 23, 2019 16:00 UTC