Suarez, Nantes lead Quezon province’s partial poll results
By Delfin T. Mallari Jr.Quezon Gov. David Suarez (NUP) is headed for re-election as he posted a comfortable lead over his rival, Irvin Alcala (LP).
Quezon Gov. David Suarez (NUP) is headed for re-election as he posted a comfortable lead over his rival, Irvin Alcala (LP).
What was initially reported as a kidnapping of a female broadcaster in Candelaria, Quezon, early Sunday morning turned out to be a hoax cooked up by the supposed victim herself.
A female broadcast journalist in Quezon was abducted by unidentified armed in men in Candelaria town predawn on Sunday, police said.
Now that manual elections look to be a thing of the past, people can afford to wax nostalgic over the much-derided slow and lengthy method of casting and counting the votes.
Lucena Bishop Emilio Marquez expressed alarm Tuesday over election-related violence in Quezon after two community organizers of re-electionist Gov. David Suarez were shot dead in Tiaong town late Monday night.
The municipal treasurer of General Nakar, Quezon is in critical condition while his wife died after they were ambushed by two men on a motorcycle in Infanta town on Sunday afternoon, police said.
Bishop Emilio Marquez of Lucena led a gathering of Catholics here on Friday to question the finding of a Social Weather Stations (SWS) poll that many Catholics are considering leaving the Church.
Big landowners on the Bondoc Peninsula in Quezon province are fencing their properties to stop agrarian reform beneficiaries from taking possession of the land that had been awarded to them, a leader of a nongovernment organization in Lucena City said Friday.
A lawmaker from Quezon province expressed worries on the poll body’s decision to print ballots for the 2013 midterm elections at the National Printing Office (NPO).
The Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) has assured the Agta tribe of Quezon province that no member of the indigenous community would be displaced by the construction of the P468-million Umiray Bridge linking Central and Southern Luzon.
Sacked Chief Supt. James Melad has admitted he approved the police blockade in Atimonan, Quezon province, where officers under his command and Army soldiers killed 13 alleged criminals on Jan. 6.
The police official who was killed with alleged illegal gambling lord Victor “Vic” Siman in Atimonan, Quezon, on Jan. 6 was under prosecution for murder, according to the records of the National Bureau of Investigation.
They did not only break police checkpoint rules but they also went beyond their jurisdiction.
