News Source: GMA News
| about 1 year ago
Election watchdog National Movement for Free Elections (Namfrel) is supporting the proposal by a poll official to have debates among presidential bets for the 2010 elections. Namfrel chairperson Henrietta de Villa said the discussions would be a good...
News Source: GMA News
| about 1 year ago
Philippines An election lawyer on Monday said the mandatory presidential debates proposed by a Commission on Elections (Comelec) official has no legal basis. In an interview over dzBB radio, lawyer Romulo Macalintal as saying that holding...
News Source: The Philippine Star
| about 1 year ago
The proposal of the Commission on Elections (Comelec) to impose a mandatory debate for candidates in the 2010 presidential elections is unconstitutional and unnecessary, according to an election lawyer...Romulo Macalintal said the poll body cannot...
News Source: Inquirer.net
| about 1 year ago
A former lawyer of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo assailed on Sunday a proposal to require presidential candidates to participate in public debates, saying that would be unconstitutional. Lawyer Romulo Macalintal said the Commission on Elections...