(UPDATE) VETERAN election lawyer George Erwin Garcia has been appointed as chairman of the Commission on Elections (Comelec), Malacañang confirmed on Monday.

He had a short stint in the poll body during the last administration, having been appointed by former president Rodrigo Duterte last March, serving as one of its commissioners.

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