MANILA — Team Unity yesterday blasted the Genuine Opposition (GO) for its crude but coordinated effort to discredit the May 14 senatorial elections in collaboration with other anti-Arroyo forces by raising manufactured stories of electoral fraud and falling for every tall tale on cheating that is being fed to them even by anonymous individuals or ghost whislteblowers.
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MANILA — Anakpawis Representative and political detainee Crispin Beltran today said that the abduction and ‘salvaging’ or summary execution of members and officials of the progressive party-lists will most likely continue long after the 2007 elections because the incumbent administration is hell-bent on driving out the progressive party-lists from the legislative arena.
Relatives and friends of the victims of enforced disappearances marched in Quezon City on Saturday to press their demand for the military to surface their kin. Read the story. (Photo…
By the Policy Study, Publication and Advocacy (PSPA)
Center for People Empowerment in Governance (CenPEG)
May 20, 2007
MANILA — President Gloria M. Arroyo and Benjamin Abalos, Sr., chair of the Commission on Elections (Comelec), this week praised the May 14 mid-term elections as “generally fair and peaceful,” with the latter dismissing reports of rampant cheating and other irregularities. The only hitch there is that both Mrs. Arroyo and Abalos have a very low trust rating among Filipinos.
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