A day after the presidential elections, residents here are now pondering on how Davao would be like now that they catapulted the city mayor into the Malacañan Palace.
Nov. 06, 2005 By Germelina Lacorte/davaotoday.com Editor’s note: For the interest of our readers, we are running this story again…
Presumptive Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte will go to Indonesia as one of the first countries to visit once he is formally thrust into Malacañang, a national daily newspaper reported here on Tuesday, May 10.
Election watchdogs recorded various cases of voter disenfranchisement as a result of machine glitches and lack of biometrics information in yesterday’s national polls.
The Commission on Elections’ (Comelec) Board of Canvassers here proclaimed on Tuesday, May 10, re-electionists Mayor Allan Rellon and Vice Mayor Geterito Gementiza as the city’s Mayor-elect and Vice Mayor-elect, respectively.
Kusog Baryohanon mayoral bet Daniel Batosalem Jr., whose candidacy was bankrolled by Tagum Agricultural Development Company Incorporated (Tadeco), holds the lead in the mayoral race, based on Comelec’s partial, unofficial results.
With more than 80% of all the votes counted, Mindanao’s lone candidate and dark horse for the presidency got 38.6 percent in a historic turnout of elections on Monday, May 9.
In a partial and unofficial results of the votes cast here, the tandem of Presidential aspirant Mayor Rodrigo Duterte and Senator Alan Peter Cayetano got majority of the votes.
In some polling precincts here, there were no available special precincts for senior citizens, persons with disability (PWD) and pregnant women, with some of them having to vote at the second floor of the polling precincts.
Casting of votes in this city might be extended until Wednesday after 80 vote counting machines have malfunctioned in several clustered precincts, a Comelec election officer said on Monday, May 9.
