MANILA– Senate Minority Leader Aquilino ?Nene? Q. Pimentel,
Jr. (PDP-Laban) today called on the Commission on
Elections to prevent another electoral catastrophe and
to seize the opportunity to redeem its impaired
reputation by deciding once and for all to exclude the
senatorial votes from Mindanao for being tainted with
fraud and being devoid of any semblance of truth and
credibility.
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MANILA — Lawyer Aquilino Pimentel III today cited six more municipalities in Mindanao where ?dagdag-bawas? (vote-padding and shaving) operations were carried out by fraud syndicates to give Team Unity bet Juan Miguel Zubiri a large margin over him.
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MANILA — The umbrella group Bagong Alyansang Makabayan today called for a congressional inquiry into the role of military commanders assigned in the Northern Luzon Command (Nolcom) and Southern Luzon Command (Solcom) of the Armed Forces of the Philippines after a general again linked the AFP to the spate of extrajudicial killings in the country.
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MANILA — Press Secretary and Presidential Spokesman Ignacio R. Bunye rebuked on Sunday critics of the mining industry for conveniently glossing over the benefits that the country derives from the mining sector.
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SINGAPORE (via PLDT) ? President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo urged today the world?s top business and political leaders to look beyond the present to the next 20-40 years of an increasingly complex and uncertain global environment.
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