Three children rummaging for garbage broke into the provincial engineer’s office building at the capitol grounds here on Tuesday morning, taking away an undetermined number of ballot boxes, 39 of which were recovered by residents.
Senator Alan Peter Cayetano on Thursday said he will call for the continuation of the Senate inquiry on the alleged electoral fraud in the 2004 and 2007 elections to really determine what happened during the controversial elections.
Former President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo on Wednesday morning posted P1- million bail before the Pasay City Regional Trial Court Branch 112.
Senator Aquilino “Koko” Pimentel said he respected a local court’s decision Wednesday to allow former President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo to post bail.
Former President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo asked the Pasay City regional trial court for an early resolution on her bid to post bail on charges of electoral sabotage, her spokesman on legal matters said Friday.
Sen. Aquilino “Koko” Pimentel III on Friday protested the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) plan to drop the electoral sabotage charges that he filed against two officials of the Commission on Elections (Comelec), saying they should not be cleared because of their key roles in fraud during the 2007 elections.
Justice Secretary Leila de Lima on Wednesday welcomed the arraignment in the Sandiganbayan of former President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo on graft charges in connection with the scuttled national broadband network deal with China’s ZTE Corp.
Former Commission on Elections (Comelec) Chairman Benjamin Abalos Sr. on Wednesday accused lawyers from the agency he used to head of “conspiring” to keep him in jail on charges of electoral sabotage in the 2007 elections.
With no one to translate the criminal information into a native dialect, the Pasay Regional Trial Court (RTC) turned to Andal Ampatuan Sr.’s teenage son to read the electoral-sabotage charge to his ailing father during his arraignment on Monday.
Former elections supervisor Lintang Bedol on Tuesday pleaded “not guilty” to the accusation he rigged the results of the 2007 senatorial elections in Maguindanao on the orders of former President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo and then provincial Governor Andal Ampatuan Sr.
Malacañang on Thursday said the “time of reckoning” had come after former President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo pleaded “not guilty” to a charge of electoral sabotage—the second Philippine leader in postwar history to be brought to court for criminal prosecution.
Clad in white shirts, over 100 supporters of former Commission on Elections chairman Benjamin Abalos have lined the periphery of Pasay City Hall in an apparent show of solidarity as he goes to court today, Monday, over his purported involvement in the irregularities during the 2007 elections.
Former Commission on Elections (Comelec) Chairman Benjamin Abalos Sr. yesterday denied accusing Pasay Regional Trial Court (RTC) Branch 117 Presiding Judge Jesus Mupas of bribery when he asked for the latter’s inhibition from hearing the election sabotage case filed against him.
