Duterte now an official candidate for president
The Commission on Elections ruled on Thursday to accept the certificate of candidacy for president of Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte.
The Commission on Elections ruled on Thursday to accept the certificate of candidacy for president of Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte.
The Commission on Elections XI reported that half of the more than 170,000 voters in the region who have no biometrics, or around 87,000 voters in Davao City will not be able to vote on the next elections.
Davao City is placed under blue alert status as Tropical Depression "Onyok" entered the Philippine area of responsibility Wednesday afternoon.
The top-ranking military official here said the armed struggle carried out by the New People's Army is irrelevant in the midst of a country that is "now slowly developing".
While a Lumad woman was in labor inside an evacuation center ran by the religious, hundreds of indigenous peoples (IPs) believed to be members of the paramilitary group, Alamara, passed by the center and held a brief protest action against the New People's Army.