Comelec exec calls out Tolentino over huge billboard in Pasay

Credit to Author: kadraneda| Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2019 08:38:12 +0000

A Comelec official has called out administration senatorial candidate Francis Tolentino over his huge billboard in Pasay City.

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PNP: 1,388 arrested for violating election gun ban nationwide

Credit to Author: jespinosa| Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2019 05:00:37 +0000

Police have arrested 1,388 persons since the election gun ban started, PNP spokesperson Senior Supt. Bernard Banac said.

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‘Nearly half of party-list groups not marginalized’

Credit to Author: lalos| Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2019 23:18:48 +0000

The bastardization of the party-list system has apparently continued, an election watchdog group said, alleging on Friday that nearly half of the groups seeking office in the May midterm polls do not represent marginalized sectors and are, in fact, backed by the rich and the powerful.

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Palace: Alleged threats to Trillanes’ life just his ‘illusion’

Credit to Author: jespinosa| Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2019 06:53:53 +0000

The alleged threats to the life of Senator Antonio Trillanes IV are merely his “illusion,” Malacañang said Thursday, after the opposition lawmaker sought an exemption from this year’s election gun ban.

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Just another joke, Palace says of Duterte’s warning to Bicol politicians

Credit to Author: kadraneda| Date: Mon, 07 Jan 2019 10:47:57 +0000

Just another joke, Palace says of Duterte’s warning to Bicol politicians

Once again, President Rodrigo Duterte should not be taken seriously when he told Bicol-based politicians they would lose financial aid if…

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Bangladesh deploys 600,000 security forces ahead of vote

Credit to Author: eestopace| Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2018 06:08:22 +0000

Bangladesh deploys 600,000 security forces ahead of vote

Bangladesh stepped up security Saturday in a bid to contain violence during a general election expected to see Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina win a record fourth term.

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Court clears Arroyo of poll sabotage

Credit to Author: hniitsu| Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2018 21:30:00 +0000

WINNING STREAK Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo emerges triumphant in a July coup at the House of Representatives. Her winning streak continued on Friday with a court exonerating her of electoral sabotage. —INQUIRER PHOTO

The Pasay City Regional Trial Court (RTC) has exonerated Speaker Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo from the charge of electoral sabotage, which stemmed from accusations of ordering, when she was President, the manipulation of results of the 2007 senatorial race in Maguindanao to ensure her candidates won.

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