ZAMBOANGA CITY: The Commission on Elections’ (Comelec) alcohol and gun ban as part of the security preparations for the special barangay elections in the city on Monday.
Sheile Covarrubias, public information officer of the city’s Crisis Management Committee (CMC), said the liquor and gun ban will take effect tomorrow.
Covarrubias said that the Comelec and the CMC had just finalized the preparations for the special barangay elections and the schedule for the campaign period was set until today.
She said the liquor ban will be imposed until Monday only while the gun ban will remain in effect until December 10.
The local Comelec office will start today the distribution of the election paraphernalia for the far-flung areas while the distribution in barangays within the seven-kilometre radius will be tomorrow.
Aside from the liquor and gun ban, the city government is also imposing a curfew from midnight to 4am.
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