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There’s The Rub By Conrado de Quiros Philippine Daily Inquirer GUS LAGMAN sent friends this letter: “Without a new appointment, I cease to be a Comelec commissioner. “It is common knowledge among senators, Malacañang officials, and some members of the Lower House, that Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile, Chairman of the Commission on Appointments, will reject the confirmation of my ad interim appointment as commissioner Read More …
BY ELLEN TORDESILLAS MALAYA ‘Tuwid na Daan has been set aside.. Right now, it’s realpolitik.’ POOR Gus Lagman. He didn’t know what hit him. Never did he imagine that we would be collateral damage in President Aquino’s rabid pursuit to make Gloria Arroyo accountable for her crimes against the Filipino people. As a commissioner in the Commission on Election, never did it cross Lagman’s mind Read More …
BY DUCKY PAREDES MALAYA ‘No one ever had a cure for electile dysfunction until the PCOS came and worked like a little blue miracle pill.’ AFTER so many elections where the results were manipulated, the count changed (in the time between the end of the balloting and the end of the counting, which took anywhere from a week or so to whole months) to favor Read More …
By Perseus Echeminada The Philippine Star MANILA, Philippines – Commission on Elections (Comelec) prosecutors claimed yesterday that former President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo and her co-accused had conspired to give zero votes to then senatorial candidates Benigno Aquino III, Alan Peter Cayetano, and Panfilo Lacson during the 2007 elections in Maguindanao. Comelec prosecutors made the allegations yesterday after they presented their first witness, lawyer Nelia Oreo, a Read More …
SHOOTING STRAIGHT By Bobit S. Avila The Philippine Star Last Friday, I was in the midst of a very important meeting when a friend interrupted our meeting to show us a texted report that the Commission on Elections (Comelec) finally approved the purchase of the Precinct Count Optical Scan (PCOS) machines. My meeting had nothing to do with politics, yet a report like that was Read More …
By Pat C. Santos The Daily Tribune The Commission on Elections (Comelec) has asked, through a motion, the Pasay Regional Trial Court (RTC) to order the transfer of the detained former President, Rep. Gloria Arroyo, to a regular detention facility, which would be the Pasay City Jail. The former President is currently detained under medical arrest at the Veterans Memorial Medical Center (VMMC) in Quezon Read More …
HIDDEN AGENDA By Mary Ann Ll. Reyes The Philippine Star The Commission on Elections (Comelec) Advisory Council recently held a weeklong vendors’ demo for technology providers as part of its early preparations for the automation of the 2013 mid-term elections. Upon learning that Smartmatic-Total Information Management (TIM) — the Comelec’s private partner in the country’s first-ever computerized balloting last year — had taken part in Read More …
BY RAYMOND AFRICA MALAYA ‘I’ve been demonized; my conscience is clear’ SECURITY measures are in place for the transfer today of Gloria Arroyo from the St. Luke’s Medical Center in Taguig City to the Veterans Memorial Medical Center in Quezon City. The PNP would not say, for security reasons, what time Arroyo will be brought to the VMMC. Arroyo will be transferred by land but Read More …
By Perseus Echeminada and Sheila Crisostomo The Philippine Star Former Comelec Chairman Benjamin Abalos speaks to reporters outside a Pasay City court just hours before the Comelec filed an electoral sabotage case against him. Edd Gumban MANILA, Philippines – The Commission on Elections (Comelec) yesterday filed an electoral sabotage case against former poll chief Benjamin Abalos for the alleged manipulation of election results in Read More …
By Mario J. Mallari The Daily Tribune Malacanang ruled out a ceasefire on its incessant barrage of attacks whether on former president Gloria Arroyo or the members of the Supreme Court that it views as being partisan based on the assessment of President Aquino, noting that it is not a case of singling out an issue and cited the interest of the public to know Read More …