Commission on Elections Chairman Sixto Brillantes Jr. has warned a staunch critic against making any more complaints or his client won’t be proclaimed.
He said it again. Commission on Elections chairman Sixto Brillantes Jr. said he would resign from his post if the any of the senatorial candidates who were proclaimed would be dropped from the “Magic 12″ as the counting of vote returns resumed Friday.
An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth. Unperturbed by allegations of massive glitches, Commission on Elections (Comelec) Chairman Sixto Brillantes Jr. on Thursday said he would file charges against his critics, insisting that Monday’s automated balloting was “one of the best elections” in the country’s history.
The motion to defer proclamation filed by the United Nationalist Alliance will be decided upon by the Commission on Elections Thursday morning.
The campaign ends Saturday night and Commission on Elections (Comelec) Chair Sixto Brillantes Jr. has last-minute reminders to the candidates.
Take the money and junk the candidate. Rebuked yet again by the Supreme Court and opposed by President Benigno Aquino III on the election “money ban,” Commission on Elections (Comelec) Chair Sixto Brillantes Jr. on Friday turned to the voters directly, issuing an appeal that they junk the candidates offering them money for their votes.
Take the money but junk the candidate. Opposed by President Benigno Aquino III and blocked anew by the Supreme Court on the election “money ban,” Commission on Elections chairman Sixto Brillantes Jr. on Friday appealed directly to voters to junk candidates offering money for their votes to teach them a lesson.
“I guarantee you I have no interest in postponing the elections,” President Aquino declared on Thursday, dismissing talk that Wednesday’s power failure in Metro Manila and many parts of Luzon was a prelude to the scrapping of the elections next Monday.
After being issued a Temporary Restraining Order (TRO) by the Supreme Court (SC), the Commission on Elections (Comelec) withdrew its five-day liquor ban Thursday.
Former Sen. Richard Gordon’s petition for the Supreme Court to allow political parties to review the “source code” of the automated machines to be used in next week’s midterm elections is now “moot and academic,” Commission on Elections (Comelec) Chairman Sixto Brillantes Jr. said Tuesday.
Commission on Elections (Comelec) chairman Sixto Brillantes Jr. dismissed Friday the filing of a complaint by civil society groups before the United Nations (UN) Committee on Human Rights as a mere “publicity stunt.”
Commission on Elections Chair Sixto Brillantes Jr. on Thursday lashed out at the poll body’s critics as the final testing and sealing (FTS) of all the 78,000 automated machines to be used in the May 13 elections began without any major glitch.
The Commission on Elections does not expect any major foul-up in the final testing and sealing (FTS) of the precinct count optical scan machines which begins Thursday, Comelec chief Sixto Brillantes Jr. said Wednesday.
