The Commission on Elections (Comelec) went on its merry course Saturday night, proclaiming the final three senatorial winners even as criticisms and questions continued to come its way over its controversial decision to declare the victors in last Monday’s senatorial elections even before all the votes could be counted.
The six senators whom the Commission on Elections (Comelec) proclaimed on Thursday the top winners of the May 13 senatorial race should return their certificates as their proclamation was invalid, according to a prominent election lawyer.
An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth. Unperturbed by allegations of massive glitches, Commission on Elections (Comelec) Chairman Sixto Brillantes Jr. on Thursday said he would file charges against his critics, insisting that Monday’s automated balloting was “one of the best elections” in the country’s history.
The Commission on Elections (Comelec) is expected to proclaim all 12 winning senators by early Wednesday night.
Step aside Loren Legarda, the perennial No. 1 in preelection surveys of voters’ preferred senatorial candidates.
The “Catholic vote” is already chipped even before the Filipinos can go to the polls on Monday. And it’s sad that those who are not voting, or cannot vote, with the Catholic Church are senior hierarchs, including the president of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines.
How much is a Filipino’s vote worth these days? According to the National Citizens’ Movement for Free Elections (Namfrel), candidates are offering up to P3,500 for a single vote in Ilocos Norte, P3,000 in neighboring Ilocos Sur, P2,000 in Zamboanga Sibugay, and P100 in Tawi-Tawi.
The campaign ends Saturday night and Commission on Elections (Comelec) Chair Sixto Brillantes Jr. has last-minute reminders to the candidates.
Take the money and junk the candidate. Rebuked yet again by the Supreme Court and opposed by President Benigno Aquino III on the election “money ban,” Commission on Elections (Comelec) Chair Sixto Brillantes Jr. on Friday turned to the voters directly, issuing an appeal that they junk the candidates offering them money for their votes.
Take the money but junk the candidate. Opposed by President Benigno Aquino III and blocked anew by the Supreme Court on the election “money ban,” Commission on Elections chairman Sixto Brillantes Jr. on Friday appealed directly to voters to junk candidates offering money for their votes to teach them a lesson.
Commission on Elections chairman Sixto Brillantes Jr. on Friday said that a total of 111 party-list groups can legitimately participate in Monday’s elections.
The review of the “source code” that will be used for the precinct count optical scan (PCOS) machines began at the Commission on Elections (Comelec) in Manila on Thursday.
“I guarantee you I have no interest in postponing the elections,” President Aquino declared on Thursday, dismissing talk that Wednesday’s power failure in Metro Manila and many parts of Luzon was a prelude to the scrapping of the elections next Monday.
