MANILA, Sept. 20 — The Commission on Elections will use the budget originally allocated for the 2016 Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan elections for 2017. House Bill 3504, which postpones the elections to October 2017, allows the Commission to continue using the appropriations given by the government for the elections. Comelec Chairman Andres Bautista previously said that the funds intended for the 2016 elections are “largely intact” when he presented the proposed budget for 2017 amounting to […]