(UPDATE) THE Commission on Elections (Comelec) has approved the Department of Labor and Employment's (DOLE) request to exempt from the election ban the implementation of nine social welfare and services projects worth P18.5 billion.
Comelec Chairman George Erwin Garcia agreed to the exemption following the endorsement from the poll body's Law Department, which said that the labor department has sufficiently complied with the requirements of Rule IV of Comelec Resolution 11060.
