Quezon City Police District (QCPD) director Brig. Gen. Remus Medina said that his Civil Disturbance Management (CDM) contingents who were deployed during the canvassing of votes and proclamation of the new president and vice-president of the country last May 25 exercised maximum tolerance in...
Trolls, be warned. Comelec Commissioner George Erwin M. Garcia (JEL SANTOS/MANILA BULLETIN) After the conduct of the May 2022 elections, the Commission on Elections (Comelec) on Monday, May 30, said it will push for a law against the utilization of social media trolls during the campaign period....
Poll watchdog Parish Pastoral Council for Responsible Voting (PPCRV) have received more than 75,000 physical election returns from various poll precincts in the country. Volunteers work on the physical election returns brought to the Parish Pastoral Council for Responsible Voting command center at...
It's time to open the bidding process to more vendors of vote-counting machines, an official of the Parish Pastoral Council for Responsible Voting (PPCRV) said. Teachers acting as members of the electoral board conduct the final testing and sealing of vote counting machines (VCMs) at the San Juan...
DAVAO CITY -- A week after being elected governor of the Province of Cotabato, incumbent Vice Governor Emmylou "Lala" Taliño-Mendoza reflected on the lessons she learned during the campaign period. (Photo Courtesy of Vice Gov Lala Mendoza Facebook Page) As a seasoned politician, Mendoza admitted...
CEBU CITY – For Cordova town incumbent mayor Mary Therese Sitoy-Cho, the fight is not yet over. Sitoy-Cho is set to file a protest before the Commission of Elections (Comelec) to question the outcome of the May 9 elections in Cordova where she lost in her re-election bid. Sitoy-Cho lost to Didoy...
The South Korean government has congratulated presumptive president Ferdinand Marcos Jr. who is poised to claim the victory in the 2022 elections. File photo of presidential bet Bongbong Marcos during their miting de avance in Tagum City, Davao del Norte on May 5. (Keith Bacongco) "The government...
Physical election returns received by poll watchdog Parish Pastoral Council for Responsible Voting (PPCRV) reached more than half of poll returns from all precincts in the country on Sunday, May 15. Parish Pastoral Council for Responsible Voting command center at the Quadricentennial Pavilion...
More than half of the registered voters in Rizal Province voted for the tandem of former senator Ferdinand “Bongbong Marcos Jr, and Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte. Based on the certificate of canvas processed by the Provincial Board of Canvassers in Rizal, presumptive president Marcos, Jr....
PAGBABAGO Dr. Florangel Rosario-Braid An unparalleled election. Election 2022 had 65.7 m registered voters and the turn-out has been high despite the pandemic. It was a fight between two polar opposites. Electoral returns came in lightning speed which elicited suspicion. Long queues were reported,...
DAVAO CITY – In 2016 elections, then vice presidential candidate Leni Robredo dominated the race in Mindanao as she won in four of the six regions, namely, Zamboanga, Northern Mindanao, Caraga and the then Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM). Robredo was eventually proclaimed vice...
Actor-director Michael V took to social media recently to share a poem he wrote relating to the recent elections. In there, he admitted to finally accepting the fact that his chosen candidate Leni Robredo lost the elections. He also congratulated Bongbong Marcos and his supporters. His poem in...
