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Restore the People’s Trust in the 2010 Elections: A Call for Open, Transparent, and Participatory Polls
A Joint Public Statement For Open, Transparent, and Participatory 2010 Elections March 18, 2009 Quezon City, Philippines The people’s trust and confidence in the electoral system must be brought back in the May 2010 automated polls – the first automated national and local elections in the Philippines. The only way this can be done is…
Romulo Neri and the NBN Scam
CHEd chairman and former NEDA director-general Romulo Neri, soft-spoken and frail of build, hardly comes across as one who could cause an uproar. But he has created quite a stir by confirming, in a Senate inquiry, reports that he had been offered a bribe by Comelec chairman Benjamin Abalos in connection with a broadband network…
Elections as Farce and as Protest
The farcical nature of the electoral process in this country has been laid bare, much worse than even our most dire predictions. BY CAROL PAGADUAN-ARAULLO STREETWISE / BUSINESS WORLD* POSTED BY BULATLAT Vol. VII, No. 15 May 20-26, 2007 After the May 14 elections, are we any closer to the democratic society that our grade-school…
Foreign Observers Witness Election Cheating
Reports reaching the Center for People Empowerment in Governance (CenPEG) show foreign observers witnessing incidents of cheating, voters’ disenfranchisement and other election violations. BY THE CENTER FOR PEOPLE EMPOWERMENT IN GOVERNANCE Posted by Bulatlat ELECTION WATCH/ANALYSIS Vol. VII, No. 15 May 20-26, 2007 Not since the snap presidential elections of 1986 have Philippine elections attracted…
IBP-NL Condemns Killing of Apayao Comelec Head
The local and regional chapters of the Integrated Bar of the Philippines (IBP) condemned the ambush that killed a Commission on Elections (Comelec) official in Apayao on Thursday, Sept. 7, even as the Comelec regional director moved to coordinate with the police to immediately solve the case. Lawyer Julius Angadol, 35, Comelec provincial supervisor in…
COMELEC Hypocrisy Condemned: Urged To Review Signatures
BY THE COUNSELS FOR THE DEFENSE OF LIBERTIES (CODAL) Posted by Bulatlat.com CODAL condemns the Commission on Election for colluding with Sigaw ng Bayan, a party to a petition before it, to railroad the approval for a people’s initiative by taking the hypocritical position of dismissing the complaint without allowing the Oppositors to question the…
Military Rebels Say No to Cha-cha
BY DABET CASTAÑEDA Bulatlat.com Military rebels are “silently observing” the people’s reaction to the Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo administration’s charter change maneuvers. “If the people will strongly react against it, there might be another attempt of military intervention to solve the current political impasse,” a retired military officer who has close ties with the military rebels said.…
People’s Initiative under Pretenses
By Michael Goyagoy IBON Features Posted by Bulatlat.com Although Malacañang denies having anything to do with it, President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo recently declared her support for charter change through the people’s initiative. In typical fashion, Arroyo likened the people’s initiative to a train. But based on reports citing the less-than-scrupulous ways the signatures were gathered, it…
Ex-Comelec Exec Says 2004 Poll Fraud Not Yet Closed
BY ALEXANDER MARTIN REMOLLINO Bulatlat.com A former commissioner of the Commission on Elections said that the issue of alleged fraud in the 2004 presidential election is not yet closed as documents on the alleged cheating were shown at a Senate hearing. A former commissioner of the Commission on Elections (Comelec) said that the issue of…
People’s Initiative Is Palace Initiative – Ex-Comelec Exec
BY ALEXANDER MARTIN REMOLLINO Bulatlat.com “People’s initiative is an idea that comes from the people, it is not an idea imposed on (them),” lawyer Mejol Sadain, who retired from the Commission on Elections (Comelec) last February, said in an interview with Bulatlat. “This thing they now call people’s initiative is actually a Palace initiative.” A…