The National Unity Party dominated the midterm elections in Misamis Occidental, grabbing the top provincial post and the top leadership positions in at least six of the provinces 17 towns. Four of the other mayoral posts went to the Liberal Party, four to the Nacionalista Party, two to the United Nationalist Alliance and one was a tossup between the NUP and the LP.
“Yellow fever” finally caught up with the Jalosjos clan during Monday’s midterm elections, frustrating its aggressive appetite for dynastic expansion and trimming its political empire to its modest beginnings in 2001.
A person was killed while 23 others were injured in violence committed during Election Day in Lanao del Sur. Local election monitors said that when compared to the extent of election violence in the past elections, Monday’s balloting in the province could be considered tame.
The rains have come. No, it’s not an official declaration that summer is over. It’s the traditional opening for business of the “vote market” that is an attendant feature of Philippine elections, including tomorrow’s exercise.
Hundreds of people have surrounded the town hall of Kauswagan, Lanao del Norte, to show support for embattled Mayor Rommel Arnado, who is facing possible ouster after the Supreme Court ruled that his candidacy in the 2010 elections was invalid.
A worker of the Liberal Party (LP) in Zamboanga del Sur was shot to death Sunday morning in Pagadian City.
Bayan Muna Representative Teddy Casiño scored communist rebels for their attack Saturday evening on the convoy of Gingoog Mayor Ruthie de Lara Guingona, mother of incumbent Sen. Teofisto Guingona III.
Brownouts in Mindanao are turning deadly, at least to the family of a man who died following an asthma attack at the height of an outage that prevented him from using his nebulizer.
The recurrence of crippling power crisis in Mindanao, coupled with the same issues as in the past, has re-ignited calls for reforms among distribution utilities and activists.
Government and Moro Islamic Liberation Front negotiators will meet on Monday in Kuala Lumpur for the 37th round of talks which could be their last in the 16-year peace negotiations facilitated by Malaysia.
Maranao colleagues of lawyer Macabangkit Lanto have rushed to his defense against allegations he is not fit for the role of Elections Commissioner because of, among others, a tarnished credibility.
The government and Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) have finally come to an agreement on the first of the four annexes to the Framework Agreement on the Bangsamoro that would pave the way for a final peace accord and the establishment of an autonomous political entity by 2016.
The government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front have finally agreed on a detailed roadmap for setting up the Bangsamoro autonomous political entity by 2016.
