Votes for partylists, Legarda said to have been shaved by 73% in massive election fraud in Philippines

MANILA — Task Force Poll Watch, an anti-fraud and monitoring group formed by partylist groups, reported this morning massive vote-shaving in at least 10 provinces, resulting in 73 percent loss of votes for Bayan Muna, Anakpawis, Gabriela, Kabataan and Genuine Opposition senatorial candidate Loren Legarda.
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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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Foreign observers’ comparison of Mindanao with Afghanistan uncalled for — Bunye

MANILA — Press Secretary Ignacio R. Bunye lamented today as “uncalled for” the statement of foreign observers of last Monday?s midterm elections comparing Mindanao with the situation in war-wracked Afghanistan.
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