This week we saw just how far politics can go, and how angry a Mayor can get when challenged. Cebu City Mayor Tomas Osmeña canceled the scheduled construction of a 20 classroom building in an elementary school in Barangay Lahug. Still angry, he will also cut the fuel allocation for trucks and the […]
This is part 1 of the report by Jiggy Manicad for Reporter’s Notebook. An overview of the 12-0 results in Maguindanao and the anomalies and discrepancies that were observed.
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Incidence of poll fraud may turn out to be “very high” in Lanao del Sur as the process of counting and tallying of votes from the province’s 13 municipalities are being done “away from public view” and against Commission on Elections’ (Comelec) prescribed guidelines, lawyer Carlos Medina, co-convenor of the Legal Network for Truthful Elections […]
Were the special elections in Lanao peaceful? Overall, it may have been peaceful, but it had its share of confusion, irregularities, and numerous cases of election violations. Although peaceful was the focus, I think the other focus was that it should have been credible. NAMFREL and LENTE have both said that although […]
The Party-List-Genuine Opposition Task Force Poll Watch has uncovered damning evidence proving that the Commission on Elections did not canvass genuine election returns (ERs) in Maguindanao.
A Maguindanao Board of Election Inspector, Faizal Kalantungan, has executed an affidavit attesting to the fact that 190 ERs and 38 ballot boxes remain uncanvassed in Pagalungan, Maguindanao.
Kalantungan’s affidavit is […]
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But what COMELEC fails to remind everyone, is that this could have all been prevented if security was provided in the first place. The security that NAMFREL was pleading to the COMELEC about, and asked for in advance of the May 14th election. COMELEC did not act, […]
The Bayan Muna partylist group today denounced the Commission on Election’s deputization of the Armed Forces of the Philippines, including Bantay nominee Jovito Palparan and former PNP chief Arturo Lomibao, in tomorrow’s elections in thirteen towns in Lanao del Sur.
“The AFP is heavily biased against the political opposition and progressive partylists. They cannot be trusted […]
The stage is set. It’s 2004 all over again. And Lanao Del Sur is once again the center stage in the electoral battle. I hope all watchdogs are geared up because COMELEC and this Administration has just sent in all the ammunition it needs to wreak havoc in the upcoming Special Elections […]
Lapu Lapu City Mayor, Arturo Radazza has won reelection. Considering that he was suspended after reports surfaced of his involvement in the overpriced ASEAN lamppost controversy, this is a surprise. He won over the acting Mayor Norma Patalinjug, who was his replacement after his preventative suspension upon the pending investigation.
The vote margin was […]
Catholics will say that God is involved in everything, but this miraculous win, a shocker by any political standard, seems to have a stamp of the Almighty Himself. The headlines in The Inquirer says it all, “A Miracle In Pampanga“. Was this a miracle or was it just time that corrupt politics gave […]
Once again, as the national voting seems to indicate, the opposition has made a tremendous showing by projecting 8 GO senators to enter the magic 12. But in local elections, which I was worried about, KAMPI and LAKAS seems to have kept the local positions in the family.
Looking into a section of our nation […]
This is why I am always skeptical of politicians especially when it comes time for elections. They don’t have enough money to run a campaign, and they can’t raise the cash needed to fund it so they do it in illegal ways. GMA News recently reported that cops in the Quezon Province are […]
