MANILA — Foreign observers from the Makati team of the People’s International Observers Mission (People’s IOM) witnessed first-hand an incident of vote-buying on the eve of the elections at 10 p.m., May 13, near the intersection of United Nations Avenue and Taft Avenue, in Manila.
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MANILA — At 10 am today, Anakpawis Representative and political detainee Crispin Beltran today cast his vote for Anakpawis and senatorial candidates as well as candidates for local government posts at the Commonwealth Elementary School in Manggahan.
By Cheryll D. Fiel
davaotoday.com
DAVAO CITY — International observers who are in the southern Philippines to monitor today’s elections said Sunday that a clean, peaceful and honest elections in the country remains a pipe dream.
Gill Boehringer, a professor of history and philosophy at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia, who is one of the five foreign delegates of the International Observers Mission (IOM) assigned in Southern Mindanao, said he did not have any illusions that the elections will be any better today, that “people would be on their good behavior.”
SUARA BANGSAMORO slammed the Armed Forces of the Philippines-Eastern Mindanao Command over the public statement of its Command Chief, Lt. Gen. Rodolfo Obaniana that he has made it his “personal crusade” to campaign against alleged left-wing organizations.
MANILA — Farmers who availed themselves of loans provided for by the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Law but have not been able to pay their amortizations may soon be presented with relief from debt once a Task Force created by President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo comes out with its recommendation on this proposal, Cabinet Secretary Ricardo Saludo said today.
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