MANILA, Philippines --- Commissioner Socorro Inting resigned on Tuesday as chair of the Committee on the Ban on Firearms and Safety Concerns (CBFSC) of the Commission on Elections (Comelec). Inting resigned a day after the 4-3 vote of the Comelec giving Chair Saidamen Pangarungan the power solely to grant gun ban exemptions and to place under the control of the commission so-called areas of concern. The gun ban will last until June 8, which is also the end of the election period. According to a memorandum she issued on Tuesday, the voting was "based on the vague and arbitrary phrase of 'meritorious and urgent cases' essentially rendered futile or pointless the functions" of ...
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