Moro groups hit AFP deployment in Mindanao as stage for massive fraud

Moro groups are wary that electoral fraud will occur again in ARMM.

This after Armed Forces Chief of Staff Hermogenes Esperon declared that more checkpoints will be established on electoral hotspots to ensure peaceful and orderly elections.

Suara Bangsamoro Partylist chair Zaynab Ampatuan said “General Esperon is merely justifying stronger military presence in Mindanao this elections to repeat what happened in 2004.”
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Philippines Supreme Court Orders Release of Partylist Nominees

MANILA — The Supreme Court ordered on Thursday the Commission on Elections (Comelec) to immediately disclose and release the names of the nominees of party-list groups or organizations accredited to participate in the party-list elections on May 14.
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Philippines: Checkpoints Another Move to Condition Public with Massive Military Presence on Election Day

MANILA — Anakpawis Representative and political detainee Crispin Beltran today slammed anew the Armed Forces of the Philippines’ establishment of more checkpoints all over the country as the countdown to the May 14 elections begins. He said that the military checkpoints were being put up not so much to deter criminals but to intimidate and frighten supporters of the opposition senatorial slate as well as of the progressive party-lists.

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