Elections

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by Jarius Bondoc (The Philippine Star), 17 Mar 2021 Diverse groups agree: the 2022 presidential election is make or break. No room for mistake. A wrong choice can disintegrate the Republic. National survival compels the groups to converge.

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Nanguna si Sen. Manny Pacquiao at si Raffy Tulfo sa senatorial preferences survey ng Pulse Asia. pic.twitter.com/FRaGQsmwz5 — News5 (@News5PH) December 31, 2020

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by Helen Flores (The Philippine Star), May 4, 2019 MANILA, Philippines — Thirteen of 134 party-list groups running in the upcoming midterm elections could get one seat in the House of Representatives, based on the latest survey conducted by Pulse Asia.

by Manila Standard, Apr 27, 2019 A private think tank asked Filipino voters to choose senatorial and local candidates who have balanced solutions for workers and businesses that will generate more jobs and lift more Filipinos out of poverty.

By DONA MAGSINO, GMA News, Feb 27, 2019 In the age of social media, “trolls” or persons paid to make multiple fake accounts to promote a client have become part of the online community, influencing how the other netizens think and react on certain issues.

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By Mayen Jaymalin (The Philippine Star), September 23, 2016 MANILA, Philippines – The Commission on Elections (Comelec) plans to set up satellite registration centers to encourage more people to participate in the elections.

by Psyche Roxas Mendoza – April 19, 2016, http://www.businessmirror.com.ph/the-truth-about-election-spending-2/ Second of three parts Not many know about it, but that sleek and confident paid political advertisement—openly endorsing a senatorial, vice-presidential, or presidential hopeful on prime- time television—is the finishing touch to what political operators call the “overt side” of an election propaganda strategy.

by Psyche Roxas Mendoza, BusinessMirror – April 17, 2016, http://www.businessmirror.com.ph/the-truth-about-election-spending/ First of three parts LEAN, dark, of average height and with an easy smile, the not-yet-40, close-in security of a government official chose to have the interview at a restaurant close to his place of work.

Carpio’s revelation Contrary to what the public has been led to believe, there is no 9 – 6 majority vote in favor of declaring Mrs. Grace Poe Llamanzares a natural-born citizen, and qualified to run for President. This is what we learn from the dissenting opinion of Senior Associate Justice Carpio, who revealed the real…

Almost all Filipinos want their president to succeed. Only politics makes it difficult to see through this basic fact. Significant success of the president momentously moves the nation forward.

Mayor Eduardo Duterte, candidate for president, made a big splash on labor market issues when he said that if elected, he would put an end to the “contractualization of labor.” He said contractualization would kill the development of Philippine labor skills.

The Commission on Elections (Comelec) has said that the Philippines is the only country in the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) to hold fully automated elections on a nationwide scale.

Rightly or not, “port congestion” is being blamed for all imaginable national, corporate, and personal woes. Why is our sales dipping? Where are our raw materials? How come food is dear despite three fuel price rollbacks? Why is DPWH re-concreting roads only now during the holiday rush? What tripped the economy from 6.6 to only…

Today’s has got to be Noynoy Aquino’s most awaited State of the Nation, since his first yearly July address in 2010. Filipinos want to hear what the President whom critics deem to be politically dead will say.

Filipino workers bound abroad for work can now register as overseas voters for the 2016 Presidential elections. A press statement from the Department of Foreign Affairs said the first Overseas Voter Registration Center (OVRC) in the Philippines opened Friday at the DFA’s Office of Consular Affairs at the ASEANA Business Park along Macapagal Avenue.

BAYOMBONG, Nueva Vizcaya – Some 9.6 million registered voters won’t be allowed to participate in the 2016 elections if they fail to update their voters’ records using the biometrics system.

MANILA, Philippines – The Commission on Elections (Comelec) expects around three million new voters to sign up during the voters’ registration that starts today for the 2016 elections.

Correcting a wrong with a bigger wrong. That’s what the Comelec will do in selling its old unreliable voting machines, then buying costlier but equally unreliable ones.

MANILA, Philippines – The Commission on Elections (Comelec) has decided to open its local offices even on Sunday to encourage new voters to register for the 2016 elections.

MANILA, Philippines — Here’s good news for the nearly 500,000 public school teachers nationwide who served as inspectors in the October barangay (village) election.

MANILA, Philippines – Filipinos abroad were urged to go out and vote as Hong Kong reported the highest voter turnout at more than 2,500 on the second day of overseas absentee voting (OAV) yesterday.

MANILA, Philippines – The Catholic lay group White Vote Movement endorsed yesterday six “Team Buhay” senatorial candidates as a show of force to deliver six million votes to those who voted against the passage of the Reproductive Health Law last year.

MANILA, Philippines – Putting in place a trade dispute settlement system, plus further liberalization of transport systems, as well as stronger linkages between the private support organizations and traders are all necessary as the Southeast Asian region is heading towards economic integration, government and private sector officials said yesterday.

A total of 52.8 million voters registered for this year’s mid-term polls, including those who joined the list-up overseas. The number rose by 2.03 million from 50.85 million in the 2010 polls.