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…
COMMENTARY: Contrary to government claims, electoral fraud and violence are not integral to Philippine culture and politics. It is perpetrated by those who profit from the existing system of Philippine politics and governance.
BY DABET CASTA?EDA
Bulatlat
ELECTION WATCH
Vol. VII, No. 15 May 20-26, 2007
Just four days after the polls, Jubien Abrena, 25, poll watcher of Bayan Muna in Magara, Roxas in the province of Palawan, was abducted by the Naval Intelligence Security Group-Western Command at about 3 p.m. of May 18 near the Puerto Princesa terminal. Three days before this incident, two other poll watchers, Jun Bagasbas and Ramilo Vallevare for the party-list group, Kabataan, were abducted by soldiers on May 15 and were found dead the next day.
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DAVAO CITY — Revel Ian Rakasa, a 24-year-old resident of Talomo Proper, spent nearly three hours looking for his name. He hopped from one voting precinct to another, elbowing his way through the throng of equally exasperated voters, their necks growing stiff looking at the pages of papers stapled on walls and blackboards. All to no avail.
Rakasa finally gave up around lunch time, when he was already feeling the pangs of hunger.
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Human na ang piniliay sa mga kandidato. Nagsugod na nga giproklamar ang mga nagdaug nga mga lokal nga mga kandidato samtang padayon pa ang canvassing sa national alang sa senador ug Partylist. Taliwala sa kapin gatusa nga nga mga kaso sa pagpatay ug harassment, gipasi-atab sa panggamhanan ni Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, ang COMELEC ug kapulisan nga malinawon ang nahitabong piniliay.
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