Independent poll watchdog Kontra Daya has named 15 partylist groups it claims to be linked to President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo and the government. Leading the list is Ang Galing Pinoy, formerly named “Guardians Anti-Crime Pro-People Organization”, whose first nominee is presidential son and Pampanga Representative Mikey Arroyo.
Mar 30th, 2010
Liberal Party vice presidential candidate Mar Roxas today claimed credit for supposedly stopping the 1,700-percent tuition fee increase in the Polytechnic University of the Philippines. In a press release, Roxas’ Senate office said:
The Commission on Elections has released its official information and announcement posters for the overseas absentee voting in Hong Kong and Singapore, the only two places outside the Philippines to hold automated elections starting April 10.
Mar 29th, 2010
By Jepoy Bengero The online encyclopedia Wikipedia’s entry on the 2010 presidential elections has been defaced, with a contributor replacing the photo of Liberal Party standard-bearer Noynoy Aquino with an image of a cartoon character.
Mar 28th, 2010
By Tonyo Cruz The cancellation of the March 28 presidential-vice presidential tandem debate is brought about by the regrettable common decision of major candidates to snub the urgent and important opportunity sought by the public to know them better.
Mar 27th, 2010
By BenCyrus G. Ellorin ON Bangkok’s streets, one sees an array of red and yellow flags. Traffic was almost at a standstill over the weekend as red shirted protesters upped their protests against the present regime. When I wrote this, the front page of The Nation, one of Thailand’s major dailies, splashed a photo of [...]
In its latest report, the Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility said that four presidential candidates hogged the television limelight, so to speak, in the fourth and fifth weeks of the national campaign.
The formal campaign period for local positions starts today across the country. Metro Manila voters are set to choose the mayor, vice mayor, councilor and district representative for the cities and districts where they are registered. In the provinces, voters would also have to vote for a new governor, a vice governor and provincial board [...]
Veteran partylist representatives Satur Ocampo of Bayan Muna and Liza Maza of Gabriela filed on Thursday a disqualification case against presidential son Mikey Arroyo who was named first nominee of a partylist group purportedly representing security guards.