Senator Franklin Drilon on Thursday called on the United Nationalist Alliance to concede Team PNoy’s election victory in order to discourage conspiracy theories and allegations of irregularity regarding the May 13 mid-term elections.
Newly-proclaimed Camarines Sur representative, Leni Robredo, paid a visit to the House of Representatives on Wednesday.
GOVERNOR-ELECT Hilario “Junjun” Davide III said he considers Tomas Osmena as a “mentor” and said he’s willing to accept advice from the outgoing Cebu City south district representative.
There’s much to be said about politicians who sit on their pride and concede defeat in an election. First, it’s rare behavior.
RE-ELECTED Cebu City Mayor Michael Rama left for a 22-day vacation to an undisclosed destination last Sunday.
EIGHT days after the elections, the teachers who served as Board of Election Inspectors (BEI) are complaining about the delay in the release of their honoraria.
Do not look at the heavens through a bamboo reed.” Can this Japanese proverb help us sift through the May 13 elections’ mixed bag? Nobody loses an election here. Those trashed insist they were cheated.
The Parish Pastoral Council for Responsible Voting (PPCRV) has mobilized its volunteers to look into delays in the transmission of electronic results from precincts to the Commission on Elections (Comelec) transparency server in Manila.
The number 1 elected councilor in this municipality was shot dead by unidentified gunmen on Sunday, but authorities were quick to rule out politics as a motive behind the murder.
And the search goes on.
Two allies of President Aquino—who belong to the Alcala and Tañada families in Quezon—suffered defeat in the May 13 elections.
The United Nationalist Alliance will not rest easy even after the proclamation of all 12 senators.
Amid allegations of massive poll cheating in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao, President Aquino’s anointed bets, now the region’s new governor and vice governor-elect, welcomed the scrutiny but appealed for sobriety.
