The Black & White Movement asks the Comelec – what gives in Mindanao? We are dismayed at the accounts coming out of provinces of Maguindanao, Shariff Kabunsuan, Sulu and Lanao del Sur. What is more appalling is the slowness with which Comelec is responding to the various crises affecting the region. It is a pity that the Comelec doesn’t seem to be doing anything to restore the people’s faith.
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By Germelina A. Lacorte
Davao Today
DAVAO CITY, Philippines — The partylist group Suara Bangsamoro said Sunday the latest bombing in Cotababto City could have been staged to draw the people’s attention away from the allegedly massive cheating and electoral fraud in Maguindanao and other areas in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao.
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DAVAO CITY — ?The bombing of the Weena Bus Terminal in Cotabato is an obvious ploy to draw away the heat from electoral fraud happening in ARMM.?
This was the statement of Atty. Beverly Selim-Musni, convenor of Initiatives for Peace in Mindanao (InPeace).
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MANILA ? The alleged cheating in Maguindanao and Lanao del Sur during Monday?s elections was ?brazen? and ?shameful,? Senate minority leader Aquilino Pimentel Jr. said today.
Pimentel called the reported 12-0 sweep by the administration?s Team Unity in Maguindanao as ?incredible and doubtful in view of allegations that election returns were falsified and votes for TU candidates were padded while votes for GO candidates were shaved.?
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A report on GMANews.tv today said that teachers and children were used to allegedly manufacture the 12-0 sweep of the Arroyo administration's senatorial candidates in Maguindanao province. Quoting from the…