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Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Tue, 21 May 2019 06:00:48 +0000

  A FAMOUS practitioner of the law ran in the 2016 elec­tions for a seat in the Senate. Extremely qualified, articulate, with a head on his shoulders and a heart where it should be, he was cheered on by friends, ac­quaintances, kindred spirits and strangers when out of the blue he pulled out of the […]

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Fri, 17 May 2019 16:10:20 +0000

  FOLLOWING a younger voter’s example – his choices were based on “whom I don’t like” – let me say I am happy that certain losers lost certainly. As I am happy that the five or six on my putative list made it to the finals despite the glitches, delays, and learned mistrust of Smartmatic. […]

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Wed, 15 May 2019 16:00:36 +0000

  HOURS after Winners and Losers Day, who could be more excited than the winning candidates? Surely it’s their mothers! Think Susan Roces for Grace Poe, Coney Reyes for Vico Sotto, Rosario Domagoso for Isko Moreno, Lovely Romulo for Roman, Helen Gam­boa for Gian Sotto, Rose Zamora for Francis. Yet even as we rolled out […]

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Tue, 14 May 2019 08:03:20 +0000

  IT’S war! Massive numbers of soldiers and policemen, armed to the teeth, were deployed to keep the order in an orderly and peaceful election. Formal send­off ceremonies were held to wish them success and Godspeed. Who was the enemy? The candi­dates, you bet. It’s those candidates who have money to spoil the whole hulla­baloo […]

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Fri, 10 May 2019 16:20:54 +0000

  TWO days to E-Day and are vot­ers ready? Personally, I feel let down by Namfrel’s withdrawal as Comelec watchdog. As each hour goes by I should be biting my nails, wondering how much more I should worry about being worried by how the exercise of free, honest, and clean elections will look like after […]

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Wed, 08 May 2019 16:10:34 +0000

  TELL me, dear reader, with­out consulting your notes or your newspaper, how many names can you recite off the top of your head as the ones you will shade on your ballot come elec­tion day? Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte has 14 names on her team. There are also 14 on the list of […]

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Tue, 07 May 2019 07:47:18 +0000

  PTV, the People’s Television, is nothing like BBC, the British Broadcasting Corp., but Secretary Martin Andanar, who’s in charge of broadcasting government commu­nications via radio, television, and social media, upholds BBC as his model. The question is, is he the only one in government with such a dream? I hope I’m mistaken, but throughout […]