Below is the statement of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo on election day:
Pahayag ng Pangulo sa Araw ng Halalan
Sa araw na ito ay nagkaisa ang sambayanang Pilipino sa likod ng demokrasya. Ipinagmamalaki natin ang ating kasaysayan bilang malayang bansa.
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MANILA — At 10 am today, Anakpawis Representative and political detainee Crispin Beltran today cast his vote for Anakpawis and senatorial candidates as well as candidates for local government posts at the Commonwealth Elementary School in Manggahan.
DAVAO CITY — International observers who are in the southern Philippines to monitor today’s elections said Sunday that a clean, peaceful and honest elections in the country remains a pipe dream.
Gill Boehringer, a professor of history and philosophy at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia, who is one of the five foreign delegates of the International Observers Mission (IOM) assigned in Southern Mindanao, said he did not have any illusions that the elections will be any better today, that “people would be on their good behavior.”
MANILA — Foreign observers from the Makati team of the People’s International Observers Mission (People’s IOM) witnessed first-hand an incident of vote-buying on the eve of the elections at 10 p.m., May 13, near the intersection of United Nations Avenue and Taft Avenue, in Manila.
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MANILA — At 10 am today, Anakpawis Representative and political detainee Crispin Beltran today cast his vote for Anakpawis and senatorial candidates as well as candidates for local government posts at the Commonwealth Elementary School in Manggahan.