Election

Photo Essay : Brgy election mess-ups

Photo Essay : Brgy election mess-ups

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Oct 29, 2013

Monday’s barangay election posed the same problem: Voters failing to find their names, teachers serving as board of election tellers (BETs) exhausted while delivering ballot boxes late at night to the Commission on Elections.

Today’s View : Barangay Elections – A Microcosm of  Patronage Politics

Today’s View : Barangay Elections – A Microcosm of Patronage Politics

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Oct 22, 2013

The festive atmosphere is of course a masquerade. Behind the merriment and the hullabaloo are the clandestine vote-buying and other shady deals that transpire in the dark between patrons and candidates. The patrons are usually figures from a political party or a political dynasty. . And there are more happenings between the candidates and followers, and so on and so forth. Oh, sometimes, between the contending bets themselves!