Suarez, Nantes lead Quezon province’s partial poll results
By Delfin T. Mallari Jr.Quezon Gov. David Suarez (NUP) is headed for re-election as he posted a comfortable lead over his rival, Irvin Alcala (LP).
Quezon Gov. David Suarez (NUP) is headed for re-election as he posted a comfortable lead over his rival, Irvin Alcala (LP).
Rampant reports on massive vote buying in different towns in Quezon have been received by the police provincial office in Camp Nakar here, said the spokesman of the Quezon Philippine National Police.
Despite causing tremendous trouble to government authorities, Quezon broadcaster Melinda Jennifer Glifonea (not Glefonea as earlier reported) is not being treated as a suspect in a staged kidnapping but is considered as a media person in distress, according to a police official.
The elections in Bicol and Southern Tagalog have been free of harassment by New People’s Army guerrillas because the rebels themselves participated in the elections, a regional spokesman of the military claimed.
The 85 chapter offices of the Integrated Bar of the Philippines (IBP) nationwide will remain open until midnight Monday to give free legal assistance to teacher-election inspectors who may be harassed or sued by losing candidates.
Police have tracked down and arrested one of the suspects in the Sunday morning kidnapping of broadcaster Melinda Jennifer “Jenny” Glefonea, reporter and news anchor of the Edge Radio (103.1-FM) based in Candelaria, her co-anchor Mitch Regondola, said in a text message to the Philippine Daily Inquirer.
Nine persons, including three children, were killed when a Bicol-bound passenger bus collided head-on with a loaded tricycle in Calauag, Quezon, on Sunday morning, police said.
In an unprecedented move, Lucena Bishop Emilio Marquez used the pulpit to enjoin Catholics here not to vote for candidates seeking endorsement from or being backed by the Iglesia ni Cristo.
A female broadcast journalist in Quezon was abducted by unidentified armed in men in Candelaria town predawn on Sunday, police said.
Now that manual elections look to be a thing of the past, people can afford to wax nostalgic over the much-derided slow and lengthy method of casting and counting the votes.
A group of 300 supporters of reelectionist Gov. David Suarez holding a meeting here on Thursday reported being fired upon by a group of unidentified men armed with high-powered firearms.
Lucena Bishop Emilio Marquez expressed alarm Tuesday over election-related violence in Quezon after two community organizers of re-electionist Gov. David Suarez were shot dead in Tiaong town late Monday night.
The municipal treasurer of General Nakar, Quezon is in critical condition while his wife died after they were ambushed by two men on a motorcycle in Infanta town on Sunday afternoon, police said.
