Leyte mayor who lost by a vote has no plans of contesting poll result

SAN ISIDRO, Leyte ---- She may have lost by a vote. But San Isidro, Mayor Susan Ang has no plans of contesting the results of the elections, saying it's time to move on. "I concede that I lost. That's the vote of San Isidro Labrador. All is I want is to have a peaceful San Isidro," she said. "Conceding is the only way to find peace because I love my town and I do not want to have more killings," she added. Ang, who ran under the administration's PDP-Laban, had 8,828 votes, while her opponent, Remedio Veloso of the United Nationalist Alliance, had 8,829 votes. Ang, however, said that her loss was caused by intimidation, harassment, and vote-buying in the municipality. La...

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