BAGUIO CITY -- “Good governance beyond politics really works and we have made traditional politics irrelevant in the city of Baguio.” Photo courtesy of Zaldy Comanda Thus said Mayor Benjamin Magalong hours after he was reelected for his second term in the Summer Capital of the Philippines. “I...
Various groups mounted a protest in front of the main office of the Commission on Elections (Comelec) on Tuesday, May 10, a day of the conduct of the May 2022 elections. Various militant groups stage a protest rally in front of the Comelec for the alleged mass cheating during the 2022 elections....
Navotas City's lone district Rep. John Rey Tiangco is the new mayor of the city after getting more than 80,000 votes while his brother, incumbent Mayor Toby Tiangco, takes over his post at the House of Representatives. Tiangco, who ran under the Partido Navoteno slate, got a total of 80,908 votes...
BUTUAN CITY – The regional command of Northeastern Mindanao Police Regional Office 13 (PRO 13) on Monday night declared that the May 9, 2022 national and local elections in Caraga region were generally peaceful. The Army’s 4th infantry (Diamond) Division (4th ID) monitoring and action center...
Ruffy Biazon is the new mayor of Muntinlupa, Jaime Fresnedi is the new congressman, and incumbent Vice Mayor Artemio Simundac got reelected as their One Muntinlupa councilors made a clean sweep of the election on May 9. The City Board of Canvassers (CBOC) proclaimed the winners of the election in...
Senator Christopher "Bong" Go on Tuesday renewed his appeal to Filipinos to uphold the sanctity of the elections and respect the results that would come after. Go made the appeal hours after partial results from the Commission on Elections (Comelec) show former senator Ferdinand “Bongbong”...
‘’We presented an alternative for a better system in governance and politics but the electorate had their minds conditioned elsewhere,’’ Senate President Vicente C. Sotto III on Tuesday, May 19 said. ‘’Word of honor and loyalty are of far greater importance than an election win,’’...
Incumbent Pasig City Mayor Vico Sotto secured a second term to provide open and honest governance to Pasig citizens after winning in the May 9 local elections. Screenshot from Pasig News Today Live / MANILA BULLETIN He was proclaimed by the City Board of Canvassers (CBC) on Tuesday morning, May 10,...
As partial and unofficial counts were released on election night on May 9, the Commission on Elections (Comelec) said that it is expecting to exceed the voter turnout it garnered back in the May 2016 elections. Voters lining up at a precinct in Iloilo City on Monday, May 9, for the national and...
By the time this morning’s newspapers hit the newsstands or are delivered to subscribers’ homes, the readers would be aware of the results of yesterday’s national and local elections. In the first two automated elections for President and Vice President in 2010 and 2016, a clear winner in the...
UNDER THE MICROSCOPE Dr. Raymund W. Lo The last few days were anxiety-filled as the campaign season drew to a close. Everyone I spoke to had sleepless nights and so did I. Our fears were well-founded. The future is at stake. But we have done everything we could: organized Viber groups, raised...
Even without extending the voting hours, a group of education workers on Monday, May 9 urged the Commission on Elections (Comelec) to pay for the extra hours the teachers spent while serving as poll workers for the 2022 elections. (ALI VICOY / MANILA BULLETIN) Alliance of Concerned Teachers (ACT)...
