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Comelec unable to stop vote-buying in Samar special polls
By LEYTE-SAMAR DAILY EXPRESS TACLOBAN CITY.—Vote-buying marred the conduct of the special elections in Barangay Buenos Aires, Pagsanghan town, Samar Thursday with amounts reportedly reaching as high as P20,000 per voter. Jose Nick Mendros, Commission on Elections regional director, admitted the Comelec could not do anything to prosecute those responsible for vote-buying as no »Read More
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Comelec resets special polls in Samar village
By LEYTE-SAMAR DAILY EXPRESS TACLOBAN CITY.–The special elections supposed to be conducted in a village in Pagsanghan town, Samar province today was reset to June 3. Samar elections supervisor Corazon Montallana said rescheduling of the special polls in Barangay Buenos Aires, which has a voting population of 492, will give the poll body more time to »Read More
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Special elections in Samar village Saturday
By LEYTE-SAMAR DAILY EXPRESS TACLOBAN CITY- The Commission on Elections in Eastern Visayas is preparing to hold special elections in Barangay Buenos Aires in Pagsanghan town in Samar on Saturday. Samar Elections Supervisor Corazon Montallana said the event will be closely watched by the contending parties because it will determine the eventual winners. The village »Read More
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Special polls in five Samar villages
By LEYTE-SAMAR DAILY EXPRESS TACLOBAN CITY.—The Commission on Elections in Eastern Visayas wants special elections held in at least five villages in Samar province where teachers failed to report for poll duty on May 10. The barangays that failed to hold elections are Carolina and San Roque in Matuguinao town, and Mabini, San Antonio and »Read More
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2 killed in Samar ERV
By LEYTE SAMAR DAILY EXPRESS TACLOBAN CITY.- Two men were gunned down in Sta. Margarita town, Samar Sunday night in what is believed to be a case of election-related violence (ERV). The victims were identified as Rodrigo de la Peña and David Casaljay, who were on board a motorcycle when they were gunned down in »Read More
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Special elections in 3 Samar precincts
By LEYTE SAMAR DAILY EXPRESS TACLOBAN CITY.- -The elections supervisor of Samar has moved for the holding of special election in a remote barangay of Pagsanghan town involving three precincts. Commission on Elections supervisor Corazon Montallana said voting could not be held in precincts 0017A, 0018-A and 0018-B, all of Barangay Buenos Aires, because they »Read More
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Additional cops to be sent to Samar, Biliran provinces
By LEYTE SAMAR DAILY EXPRESS TACLOBAN CITY.—The Philippine National Police will begin deploying on Thursday 580 policemen from its regional headquarters to the three Samar provinces and Biliran island to respond to possible eruption of election-related violence. About 400 of the cops, many of them newly hired and assigned at present to the health and »Read More
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Poor folk terrorized in Samar pol rivalry
By DEAN M. BERNARDO CALBAYOG CITY, Samar.—In Barangay San Jose in this city, local folk point to nipa walls, bamboo posts and even the village’s few paved roads, all riddled with bullet holes. These holes have been here since midnight of Feb. 20 when 200 armed men raided Happy Valley, the name used to refer »Read More
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ICAPA asks pols to help dismantle private armies
By LEYTE SAMAR DAILY EXPRESS CATBALOGAN CITY.—The Independent Commission against Private Armies (ICAPA) has urged politicians in Eastern Visayas to help dismantle existing private armed groups. ICAPA Chairperson Justice Monina Arevalo-Zenarosa singled out the region as among the places where these armed groups continue to exist. The others are Abra, Marawi City, Davao and Zamboanga »Read More
