Manila, May 8 -- The Commission on Elections (Comelec) is no longer pursuing the vote-buying complaint against administration senatorial candidate and House of Representatives Deputy Speaker Camille Villar.

In a letter dated May 7, the Comelec's Committee on Kontra Bigay informed Villar that it accepts her explanation regarding her presence in a February event in Imus, Cavite, where cash prizes were given to the attendees.

"The Committee on Kontra Bigay takes cognizance of your answer and considers it to have satisfactorily explained the circumstances surrounding the reported act of alleged vote-buying," Teopisto Elnas, the committee's vice chairman, said in the letter, a copy of which was issued to the media on Thursday.

"Upon evaluat...