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Palace backpedals on option to postpone poll
By RG Cruz
ABS-CBN News
MANILA, Philippines – A spokesman of President Arroyo on Wednesday backpedaled on his earlier statement expressing support for a delay in the automated elections on Monday over glitches in preparations.
Deputy presidential spokesman Gary Olivar earlier told Agence France-Presse that [...]
Continue Reading →Villar, Noynoy warn vs delaying polls
abs-cbnNEWS.com
MANILA, Philippines – Presidential rivals Sen. Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III of the Liberal Party and Sen. Manny Villar of the Nacionalista Party on Wednesday opposed proposals to postpone the May 10 polls, saying it may lead to President Gloria Arroyo extending her stay in power [...]
Continue Reading →Arroyo election lawyer resigns over poll deferment dispute
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MANILA, Philippines – The long-time election lawyer of President Arroyo has resigned over a dispute with Malacañang on the timing of elections given the new technical glitches that cropped up a week before the May 10 polls.
President Arroyo on Wednesday accepted the resignation of [...]
Continue Reading →Bayan Muna on GMA’s plot: From No-El to Oplan Rafael
By Delon Porcalla
The Philippine Star
MANILA, Philippines – Militant party-list group Bayan Muna yesterday disclosed the Arroyo administration’s purported plan to stay in power, this time through what it called “Oplan Rafael” or Retain Arroyo through Failure of Elections, replacing [...]
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 →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 →SC asked to void Bangit appointment
Philippine Daily Inquirer
MANILA, Philippines—Former Ombudsman Simeon Marcelo has asked the Supreme Court to invalidate the alleged “midnight appointment” of Armed Forces Chief Gen. Delfin Bangit as well as those of two other top military officials.
Marcelo, who has turned into a critic of President [...]
Continue Reading →Bangit: No need for people power
By Maria Althea Teves
abs-cbnNews.com/Newsbreak
Assures bishops that Armed Forces will be non-partisan in the elections
MANILA, Philippines—Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) chief of staff Gen. Delfin Bangit on Tuesday told Catholic bishops that people taking to the streets will not be necessary, giving [...]
Continue Reading →Arroyo’s election lawyer wants polls postponed
abs-cbnNEWS.com
MANILA, Philippines – Amid new problems that have cropped up in the country’s first nationwide automated polls, President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo’s election lawyer has called for the May 10 elections to be postponed.
In a statement, he said “postponement of the election is the only [...]
Continue Reading →RP militias on int’l list of ‘predators of the press’
Philippine Daily Inquirer
PARIS—Media watchdog Reporters Without Borders (RSF) on Monday named the world’s 40 worst “predators of the press,” including politicians, religious leaders and Philippine militias, to mark World Press Freedom Day.
“They are powerful, dangerous, violent and above the [...]
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