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19 party-list groups endorse Gibo
By Jaime Laude
The Philippine Star
MANILA, Philippines – A coalition of 19 party-list organizations including thousands of urban poor residents in Tondo, Manila declared their support for administration candidate Gilberto “Gibo” Teodoro Jr.
Former Interior secretary Rafael Alunan also joined in support of Teodoro.
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Continue Reading →Government press probed for printing campaign materials
By Paolo Romero
The Philippine Star
MANILA, Philippines – Philippine Information Agency (PIA) Director General Conrado Limcaoco is launching a probe into reports that officials of one of the printing offices that he is supervising have been illegally using facilities to print election [...]
Continue Reading →‘Don’t be surprised if frontrunner loses’
The Philippine Star
MANILA, Philippines – The race for the presidency is still wide open, Malacañang said yesterday.
Speaking to reporters, Press Undersecretary Rogelio Peyuan said Filipinos must not be surprised if the winner is not among the frontrunners in the surveys.
“Elections give us [...]
Continue Reading →Quezon City court won’t stop poll surveys
By Reinir Padua
The Philippine Star
MANILA, Philippines – Citing lack of jurisdiction, a Quezon City court denied yesterday a petition of Bagumbayan Party standard-bearer Sen. Richard Gordon for a temporary restraining order to stop the release of survey results on presidential candidates [...]
Continue Reading →10K machines need satellite links
By Kristine L. Alave
Philippine Daily Inquirer
MANILA, Philippines—Nearly 4,700 polling centers in the country with some 10,000 voting machines will have to use a satellite connection to transmit tallies because they have no mobile-network coverage, said a document from the Commission on Elections (Comelec).
These [...]
Continue Reading →Calls for manual count mount but Comelec says no
Philippine Daily Inquirer
MANILA, Philippines—Widespread misreading of ballots in the testing of counting machines for Monday’s automated polls has revived calls from national and local candidates for a full manual count to ensure that no massive electronic rigging will occur on Election [...]
Continue Reading →Estrada is Arroyo’s last card vs Aquino–Maceda
By Norman Bordadora, Leila B. Salaverria
Philippine Daily Inquirer
MANILA, Philippines—Supporting former President Joseph “Erap” Estrada may be the only remaining option for the Arroyo administration if it wants to prevent Sen. Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III from winning next week’s presidential elections, according [...]
Continue Reading →NICANOR P. PERLAS: New governance goes beyond gov’t
By DJ Yap
Philippine Daily Inquirer
(Editor’s Note: The presidential profiles will be running in no particular order but as the stories come in from our reporters in the field.)
(Sixth of a series)
MANILA, Philippines—“My first lady is the Philippines, Inang [...]
Continue Reading →Voting machines fail
76,000 memory cards to be replaced
By Michael Lim Ubac, Tarra Quismundo, Kristine L. Alave
Philippine Daily Inquirer
MANILA, Philippines—Now, it can be told officially. The tests produced weird results.
This sent embarrassed officials of the Commission on Elections (Comelec) and its partner, Smartmatic-TIM, scrambling to [...]
Continue Reading →- Metro Cebu – December 18, 2011
- Metro Davao – December 18, 2011
- Metro Manila – December 18, 2011
- The Straight Path Needs to Turn a Corner
The Straight Path Needs to Turn a Corner
Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. But small is the gate and…
- Identity Matters
Identity Matters
How the principle of "shared destiny" shapes the way voters behave.
In the West, identity politics is often equated with minority interests. Barack Obama in 2008 won the presidential contest by…
