Bishops eye plan of action against vote buying, PCOS flaws in future polls
Source: Inquirer.net
Manila :: Philippines | updated 2013-05-15 04:01:46 -0700 | political-news
Philippines Several Catholic bishops said on Wednesday they were saddened that vote-buying worsened during the May 13 elections, an indication that the Catholic Church should boost its efforts to educate voters amid a nation facing values crisis. Over Church-run Radio...
Elections stop advance of Jalosjos ‘dynasty' in Zamboanga Peninsula
Source: Inquirer.net
Zamboanga :: Philippines | updated 2013-05-15 14:54:00 -0700 | political-news
Jalosjos clan in Monday's midterm elections, frustrating its aggressive appetite for dynastic expansion and trimming its political empire to what it originally was in 2001...Wednesday, only one of 14 clan members managed to clinch an elective post: Dapitan City Councilor...
Teenage vendor stabbed dead in QC
Source: Inquirer.net
Manila :: Philippines | updated 2013-05-15 04:01:44 -0700 | political-news
PhilippinesA teenage vendor was killed Wednesday morning after he and two drinking buddies had apparently picked the wrong person to bully and allegedly extort money from. Mark Stephen Torres, 16, of Bicol-Leyte Street in Barangay (village) Commonwealth, was declared dead...
JV Ejercito says he expected better finish
Source: Inquirer.net
Manila :: Philippines | updated 2013-05-15 16:09:54 -0700 | political-news
Philippines Placing 11th in the latest partial count of the votes was a surprise for United Nationalist Alliance senatorial candidate Joseph Victor JV Ejercito, but he said he was nevertheless thankful to be in the Magic 12. Ejercito said many...
Maguindanao rice trader abducted
Source: Inquirer.net
Cotabato :: Philippines | updated 2013-05-15 02:50:04 -0700 | political-news
De Leon said the armed men dragged the victim to a getaway car parked a few meters away from the store. Cabrera is a son of former Kauran village councilor Rafael Cabrera. De Leon said policemen who went after the...
Kwentong Kapuso: Help PHL choose better leaders through education
Source: GMA News
Asia :: Philippines | updated 2013-05-15 02:49:29 -0700 | political-news
Help PHL choose better leaders through education Bing Branigin May 15, 2013 5:13pm Really? After 1986, I thought the Philippines and the Filipino people really wanted a democratic country. Now 2013, the Filipinos elected their senators, congressmen, governors, mayors, etc....
Baby girl killed in North Cotabato grenade blast
Source: Inquirer.net
Kabacan :: Philippines | updated 2013-05-14 23:53:08 -0700 | political-news
PhilippinesA six-month-old baby girl was killed and her mother was injured in a grenade explosion in North Cotabato before dawn Wednesday. Colonel Dickson Hermoso said the explosive went off at the house of a certain Adelida Aguinaldo on Malvar Street...
Post-election cleanup of Metro Manila begins
Source: Inquirer.net
Manila :: Philippines | updated 2013-05-14 23:53:01 -0700 | political-news
Wednesday a massive cleanup to remove campaign materials that littered Metro Manila during the campaign period. Chairman Francis Tolentino personally led the first day of the clean-up operation around 4 a.m., getting rid of campaign posters and tarpaulins in streets...
Calixto re-elected mayor of Pasay
Source: Inquirer.net
Manila :: Philippines | updated 2013-05-14 21:23:30 -0700 | political-news
PhilippinesReelectionist Antonino Tony Calixto won a landslide victory in the mayoralty race in Pasay, getting three-fourths of the total votes cast in the city. Calixto of the Liberal Party was proclaimed mayor of Pasay at the Cuneta Astrodome Tuesday midnight...
Kwentong Kapuso: What I did on election day
Source: GMA News
Manila :: Philippines | updated 2013-05-14 21:17:29 -0700 | political-news
What I did on election day May 15, 2013 8:30am I voted early, with no hassles. The polling place is a public school five minutes' walk from my house...On my way home, I met my kasambahay' and her husband who...
CF cards in Batangas City defective
Source: Inquirer.net
Batangas :: Philippines | updated 2013-05-14 18:29:46 -0700 | political-news
Rita, Gulod Labac, and Gulod Itaas of this city were defective. She said they have requested the National Support Center of the Commission on Elections to inform the poll body's warehouse in Cabuyao, Laguna to deliver replacement cards in these...
DPWH orders probe of P500-M irregularities in Leyte road
Source: GMA News
Manila :: Philippines | updated 2013-05-14 16:59:06 -0700 | political-news
P500-M irregularities in Leyte road May 15, 2013 7:21am The Department of Public Works and Highways has started probing some P500 million in irregularities surrounding the construction of a section of the Leyte Road. Secretary Rogelio Singson said documents showed...
Ynares proclaimed next Mayor of Antipolo City
Source: Inquirer.net
Antipolo :: Philippines | updated 2013-05-14 16:31:41 -0700 | political-news
PhilippinesGovernor Casimiro Jun Ynares III was proclaimed the next Mayor of Antipolo City over re-electionist Nilo Leyble late Tuesday night after a long delay in canvassing at the Ynares Center. The final and official count by the Commission on Elections...
PAGASA: Rain expected over Luzon, west Visayas, but no cyclone yet
Source: GMA News
Tuguegarao :: Philippines | updated 2013-05-14 16:08:03 -0700 | political-news
Luzon. Luzon and Western Visayas will have cloudy skies with light to moderate rain showers and thunderstorms. The rest of the country will be partly cloudy with isolated rain showers or thunderstorms," it said. It added light to...
El Shaddai's Buhay leads party-list race
Source: Inquirer.net
Manila :: Philippines | updated 2013-05-14 15:30:31 -0700 | political-news
PhilippinesThe prolife Buhay Hayaan Yumabong (Buhay), the party-list group of El Shaddai leader Bro. Mike Velarde, took a commanding lead in the party-list electoral race, getting nearly five percent of the votes based on partial, unofficial tally of the Commission...
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