BACOLOD CITY — The Commission on Elections (Comelec) in the Negros Island Region (NIR) has been ordered to focus in Negros Oriental, which has a history of election-related violence, Lionel Marcos Castillano, Comelec-NIR regional director, said on Thursday.

Castillano, with assistant regional director Dindo Maglasang, met with local election officers in Negros Occidental on Thursday in Bacolod City.

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