Namfrel designates Averia as acting national chairperson
The National Citizens’ Movement for Free Elections (Namfrel) has designated Angel Averia Jr. as its Acting National Chairperson.

This following the resignation of their National Chairperson Augusto Lagman.
In a statement, Namfrel said, Averia known as "Lito" in the IT community, has over 40 years of working experience in the information technology industry, and held various supervisory and management positions in both marketing and technical support.
"He has experience in project management and consulting, application design, systems integration, systems implementation, project management, business continuity and disaster recovery planning and implementation, and information system security planning and implementation," the group said.
Namfrel said Averia joined the group in 1992 as a volunteer member of its Systems Group, and later on, became a member of the National Council.
"In Namfrel, he assisted in setting up systems for election data collection and the conduct of parallel vote counts, and analyzed election results data,"
Averia is also a member of the Commission on Elections (Comelec) Advisory Council representing Namfrel.