The frontrunner of the country’s presidential elections, Mayor Rodrigo Duterte, is bent on calling Congress to pass a law for a Constitutional Convention once proclaimed as the new president.
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Nov. 06, 2005 By Germelina Lacorte/davaotoday.com Editor’s note: For the interest of our readers, we are running this story again…
Election watchdogs recorded various cases of voter disenfranchisement as a result of machine glitches and lack of biometrics information in yesterday’s national polls.
In a partial and unofficial results of the votes cast here, the tandem of Presidential aspirant Mayor Rodrigo Duterte and Senator Alan Peter Cayetano got majority of the votes.
The camp of Presidential bet Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte said they received reports of vote-buying that occurred since yesterday up to today’s national elections.
Election glitches figured in the morning of the country’s national elections as thousands of voters flocked very early to polling centers in the Davao region.
Police confiscated a total of 181 firearms and 104 deadly weapons, and arrested 248 persons in the course of conducting election-related checkpoints in the region.
A senator urged the government to implement a “National No Blackout Days” come May 9 elections so as not to deny people the right to vote and delay the canvassing of election returns.
An online petition has called on the Movie and Television Review and Classification Board (MTRCB) to suspend several television broadcasting networks for airing an advertisement against PDP-Laban Presidential candidate Rodrigo Duterte.
The National Union of People’s Lawyers (NUPL) on Thursday said it will support Neri Colmenares’ bid for a Senate seat because of his impressive track-record both as a people’s lawyer and brilliant lawmaker.
