By MARILOU AGUIRRE-TUBURAN
Davao Today
Balisado said that the region has a total of 2.6 Million registered voters. With Davao City’s total 936,451 registered voters, a mayor or vice mayor are only allowed to spend only about PHP2.8M.
By ALEX D. LOPEZ
Davao Today
“We are encouraged to actively participate in the forthcoming elections to push forward the aspirations and the solutions that we believe are answers to the prevailing problems of poverty due to landlessness, lack of decent jobs, graft and corruption and the domination of foreign policies in our system of government,” Joel Virador, former Bayan Muna Representative
By ALEX D. LOPEZ
Davao Today
Zarate also noted that since 2001, of the more than a thousand victims of extrajudicial killings especially during the regime of Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, “majority of those killed were either leaders or members or supporters of Bayan Muna.”
By ALEX D. LOPEZ
Davao Today
The convention will also be the venue where Makabayan’s platforms as the criteria for their basis of endorsing local and national politicians will be announced.
By MARILOU AGUIRRE-TUBURAN
Davao Today
“It was based on track record, and years of cooperation — not just months or during the electoral season — on various issues that Makabayan stand for,” Makabayan’s Ariel Casilao said, disabusing beliefs that their endorsement was only for political convenience.
By MARILOU AGUIRRE-TUBURAN
Davao Today
Adam Shaw, a mission intern who hailed from Brunswick, Ohio said that no matter who gets elected, “the policy of the US government in Southeast Asia is going to be the same” adding that US presence here continues because of the country’s huge natural resources.
By PAUL RANDY P. GUMANAO
IBON Features—The initial astonishment with the speed of the election results was just as quickly replaced with doubts on the…
By CJ KUIZON
The day after the elections, teachers belonging to the random manual audit team (RMAT) assigned to check the ballot count of selected precincts in Davao City were in an uproar.
By CHERYLL D. FIEL
Oscar Breva, one of the lawyers watching for the Aquino-Roxas camp during the canvassing of votes, said a lot of things were invisible to the eyes in the new way of counting votes.
