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Bedol worked under Garcillano when the former Commission on Elections commissioner was regional director for Socksargen from 1993 to 1994.

Garcillano, who lost in Bukidnons congressional race in the May elections, is widely believed to be the election official whose phone conversation with President Arroyo where they supposedly discussed the rigging of polls in Mindanao in 2004 was wiretapped.

Garcillano said the allegations against Bedol are not new. He said he was also a victim of the political opposition which accused him of election fraud.

Garcillano said that like him, Bedol is innocent.

I have not heard anything thrown against him except the statement he made that the certificates of canvass in his office were stolen. But there are no accusations that he was the one who authored the 12-0 win of the administration, said Garcillano.

Bedol was flown to Manila on Monday after being arrested in Davao City for ignoring the summons for a Comelec inquiry on poll irregularities in Maguindanao.

The Comelec has remanded Bedol to the custody of his lawyer, Andrei Bon Tagum, a fact that did not escape the barbs of Anakpawis Rep. Crispin Beltran, a critic of the Arroyo administration.

The poll body had earlier said Bedol would be put behind bars once he is arrested.

Beltran said he was completely disappointed with the Comelecs previous declaration that it would punish Bedol.

Bedol has been treated like royalty, with the Comelec leadership and Malacaang itself treading carefully around eggs when it comes to him. This is highly suspicious given the already prevalent view that the government is not really keen on prosecuting Bedol out of fear of what the latter might revealevidence damning to Malacaang and its candidates in the concluded senatorial race, Beltran said.

Beltran also challenged the Comelec to recommend criminal or administrative sanctions against Bedol for trying to evade arrest.

The poll body charged Bedol with contempt for failing to attend the counting of votes from Maguindanao, to deliver the municipal certificates of canvass to the Comelec office in Manila; for daring the Comelec to sue him so he could face his accusers in court and flaunting his pistol in public and admitting that he owns an armory.

In the hearing Tuesday, Bedol pleaded innocent of indirect contempt before the Comelec en banc.

He maintained that the warrant of arrest issued against him had no basis because he had not violated any law.

The Comelecs sound and fury over Bedol is most likely just for show, to lessen suspicion that the Comelec and Malacaang itself were actually well aware of what Bedol did in his capacity as Maguindanao commissioner and overseer of the polls in the region. Bedol now walks as a free man, and the poll irregularities including fraud he perpetrated to aid the administrations Team Unity will be swept under the rug, Beltran said. --With Maricel V. Cruz


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Well, its the same thing everyday... Philippine Politics is getting boring... same crimes, same everything. why dont they stop so itll be more interesting. im talking non sense again.

honestly, thats their strategy. we know that bedol did something wrong. but since Philippine law is lax, this is whats happening..... good luck to our law!!!