To curb vote buying in the elections on Monday, the Commission on Elections (Comelec) is planning to impose restrictions on “unusual” cash withdrawals from banks.
Former Commission on Elections (Comelec) chair Benjamin Abalos was back at the Southern Police District (SPD) headquarters in Taguig City Sunday morning where he was detained for eight months on charges of electoral sabotage.
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 Commission on Elections (Comelec) Chairman Benjamin Abalos had a brief taste of freedom at noon Sunday after a Pasay City court on Friday granted him a two-hour leave from detention for humanitarian reasons.
The state witness lived up to his billing. The mission was clear, he said: Ensure a perfect victory for the Team Unity senatorial ticket of former president Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, even if the actual count had to be fixed.
Ombudsman Conchita Carpio-Morales on Wednesday dismissed the bribery and graft and corruption case against former President, now Pampanga Representative Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo and several others in connection with the May 2004 elections in Lanao Del Norte, Lanao del Sur, Tawi-Tawi, Sultan Kudarat, and Cotabato City.
Former Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO) chair Manuel “Manoling” Morato has disputed a Commission on Elections (Comelec) order for the filing of 2010 presidential election-related cases against him, asserting “there is no clear line dividing press freedom and the ban on electioneering.”
Acting Governor Mujiv Hataman of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao has expressed confidence that the region’s reputation as the country’s poll cheating capital will be erased as soon as the Commission on Elections conducts a re-registration of voters.
Militant party-list House members on Wednesday filed a criminal complaint against former Commission on Elections Commissioner Virgilio Garcillano for allegedly lying to Congress about not having gone to Singapore and for allegedly submitting a fake passport during the investigation into the alleged fraud in the 2004 polls.
Colonel Pedro Sumayo was “saving someone” and was not telling the whole truth when he appeared Tuesday in the Senate investigation into alleged electoral fraud during the Arroyo administration, according to his former subordinate in the military intelligence community.
The information officer of then Maguindanao Governor Andal Ampatuan Sr. on Tuesday said he personally heard then President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo give the order in Malacañang to ensure a 12-0 victory for the administration’s senatorial candidates in the 2007 elections.
Former president Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo is a “a victim of Aquino express” that defies all law and logic and the highest court of the land, according to her counsel and legal spokesperson Raul Lambino.
A Roman Catholic bishop known to be a supporter of former president Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo lamented on Saturday the Aquino administration’s treatment of her.
