By Bingo Dejaresco III
The Bohol Chronicle
Former Gov. Rene Relampagos, who ran for congressman in the third district during the last elections alleged aberrations of elections results in the towns of Loay and Sierra Bullones may have altered the final result of the third congressional race.
This was the statement issued by Relampagos after documents showed of the alleged aberrations of the May 14 elections in the 3rd district in which newcomer Rep. Adam Jala, son of former Rep. Eladio Jala, was declared by the Commission on Elections as winner.
Jala garnered 65,081 votes against 62,106 votes of Relampagos.
The former governor who few weeks after the elections insinuated to bid goodbye to politics resurrected the alleged election anomaly after documents gathered revealed some irregularities which were not taken into consideration by the local election board.
Comelec Supervisor Atty. Veronico Petalcorin could not be reached for comments who was out of town when contacted last Friday. Text messages from the Chronicle failed to get reply from the Comelec official.
It maybe recalled that the young Jala has repeatedly denied fraud committed in the congressional race while saying that he left it to the Comelec to decide on some complaints raised by Relampagos shortly before he was proclaimed as the duly elected 3rd dist congressman last May.
Direct, testimonial and circumstantial data gathered by the Chronicle Research, however, seem to show that in the two towns of Sierra Bullones and Loay, Relampagos may have been a victim of the infamous "Dagdag-Bawas" method of electoral fraud.
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