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Votes for Philippines’s leftist party-lists not being read and tallied: Beltran

MANILA — Anakpawis Representative and political detainee Crispin Beltran today said that the areas where the candidates other Arroyo administration’s Team Unity are supposedly winning big are also the areas where the progressive party-lists Bayan Muna, Anakpawis, Gabriela, Suara Bangsa Moro and Kabataan were being cheated out of hundreds of thousands of votes.

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Five leftist partylist groups claim victory

VICTORY FOR PEOPLE’S PARTYLISTS!
STOP FRAUD, PROTECT THE PEOPLE’S VOTE!

Common Statement of Five Partylists on the May 14 Elections

May 17, 2007

We thank voters for giving us a fresh mandate to serve in Congress.
From all indications ? based on our internal quick count, the May 14
exit poll and pre-election surveys ? we are set to win back the six
seats which we previously won in 2004.
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Garci’s expertise may be tapped anew for ’special ops’

MANILA — Senate Minority Leader Aquilino ?Nene? Q. Pimentel,
Jr. (PDP-Laban) today voiced apprehension that former
Elections Commissioner Virgilio Garcillano may be
tapped again by the administration for special
operations to enable more Team Unity senatorial bets
to squeeze into the winning column.
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Philippines: Presence of soldiers, armed men in canvassing stuns foreigners

Foreign visitors from the Peoples International Observers Mission (Peoples IOM) witnessed how soldiers and unidentified armed men roamed freely around the site where the election canvassing was taking place in the town of Guimba in Nueva Ecija, Philippines.

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