Former President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo and the other former government officials charged with the nonbailable offense of electoral sabotage could be released on bail because of the prosecution’s failure to offer evidence of a conspiracy, a spokesperson for the Pasay City court hearing the case said Thursday.
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.
Security will be tight Thursday at the Pasay Regional Trial Court in preparation for the arraignment of former president Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo for electoral sabotage.
The Pasay Regional Trial Court has agreed to the request of former President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo to be arraigned separately from former Maguindanao Gov. Andal Ampatuan Sr. and provincial election supervisor Lintang Bedol, her two coaccused in the electoral sabotage case filed by the Commission on Elections.
Former Maguindanao election supervisor Lintang Bedol will remain in detention at the Philippine National Police custodial center in Camp Crame, Quezon City, even though he finished serving his sentence in a separate case last week.
After the issuance of an arrest warrant by a Pasay City regional trial court in record-time against former President and Pampanga representative Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, her trial for electoral sabotage is anticipated to proceed at a snail’s pace.
The following is the sequence of events in a tension-packed day climaxed by what had been largely unthinkable until Friday: The arrest of former President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo in her hospital bed at St. Luke’s Medical Center in Taguig City.
Former Maguindanao Election Supervisor Lintang Bedol on Tuesday testified on the existence of a “syndicate” in the Commission on Elections (Comelec) that sold documents vital to past cheating operations. “Very correct, your honor,” Bedol said when asked by Senate Minority Leader Alan Peter Cayetano about “syndicates in or outside the Comelec that sell election returns [...]
The Commission on Elections (Comelec) will investigate allegations of cheating in the 2007 senatorial polls based on the revelation of dismissed Maguindanao provincial election supervisor Lintang Bedol. “Yes, we have decided in the commission en banc already that we will investigate what happened in 2007. We will see if there were election offenses committed,” Commissioner [...]
After coming out of hiding for four years, Lintang Bedol must now face the music. The Office of the Ombudsman on Thursday ordered the filing of graft charges against the former Maguindanao supervisor of the Commission on Elections (Comelec) for irregularities in the May 2007 elections. Deputy Ombudsman for Mindanao Humphrey Monteroso issued the order [...]
The Office of the Ombudsman has ordered the filing of a graft case against former Maguindanao election supervisor Lintang Bedol for alleged irregularities committed during the May 2007 polls.
Two municipal election officers and an aide have corroborated Lintang Bedol’s claims of massive cheating in Maguindanao province during the 2007 senatorial race to favor Arroyo administration candidates, the Commission on Elections (Comelec) said on Wednesday. Comelec Chair Sixto Brillantes Jr. released copies of the affidavits of Magsaysay Mohamad and Saliao Amba, poll officers of [...]
Former Maguindanao elections supervisor Lintang Bedol will not be getting special treatment at the Philippine National Police Custodial Center in Camp Crame, insisted Chief Superintendent James Melad, the Headquarters Support Service chief.
