STANDARD: Senate grills Comelec over P1B lot purchase - Senators slammed the Comelec Thursday for buying a P1.19 billion property in Pasay City for its new headquarters without the proper authority, in budget hearings that have already uncovered the poll body's purchase of seven king-size beds for more than P91,000 each. "There appears to be a gross violation of the Constitution on the part of the Comelec when they decided to use their P3.5 billion savings to purchase a piece of land worth P1.188 billion," said Sen Franklin Drilon, chairman of the Sen finance committee. "Somebody can take this to the Ombudsman for technical malversation."
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