MANILA, May 5 -- The Commission on Elections (Comelec) is collating the names of candidates who have pending disqualification cases and analyzing the evidence against them.

Comelec Chairperson George Garcia said there are more or less 400 vote-buying and abuse of state resources (ASR) complaints filed before the Committee on Kontra-Bigay, which looks into alleged cases of buying or selling of votes.

The Clerk of the Commission is looking over the cases, especially those backed with strong evidence, "to study the possibility of suspending the proclamation of these candidates in case they win" on May 12, Garcia said.

"We are already gathering those with disqualification cases with the Clerk of the Commission," he said in an interview.

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