Provincial supervisor Jessie Suarez of the Commission on Elections has been directed to investigate five election related cases in Negros Occidental.

COMELEC Regional Director Renato Magbutay directed Suarez to investigate the cases of Jose Nadie Arceo vs. Angelito Colmenares, Genaro Alvarez vs. Roger Gasataya et. al, Tranquilino Carmona vs. Julio Ledesma, et. al., Remus Bayawa vs. Manuel Bayawa, and Albino de la Cruz vs. Evello Valencia III.

Suarez was ordered to conduct a formal investigation only for the purpose of ascertaining the truth and without necessarily addressing to the judicial rules applicable in judicial proceedings, Magbutay said.

Suarez was also directed to come up with resolutions after the investigation and to send them, along with the records of the cases, to the COMELEC Law Department, Magbutay said. Arceo who won as vice mayor of Hinigaran had filed the case against his opponent Colmenares for allegedly entering polling precincts in Tuguis, Hinigaran, during the 2001 elections.

Alvarez who won as congressman of the sixth district had filed the case against Roger Gasataya, et al. of the Kabankalan City Board of Canvassers sub canvassing committee for allegedly increasing the votes of his opponent.

Carmona who lost to Ledesma in the race for congressman of the first district of Negros Occidetnal had filed the complaint for alleged violation of the rule on posting campaign materials, COMELEC records show.

SPO1 Remus Bayawa, on the other hand, filed a complaint against his father Manuel Bayawa, 66, for possession of a firearm in San Carlos City on May 13 in violation of the COMELEC gunban. And dela Cruz who lost the mayoralty race in Toboso to Valencia had questioned his citizenship.*CPG

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