Archive - PHL Vote 2016

By COOPER RESABAL  ON election week, residents of many barangays in the island province of Bohol usually greet each other with this question: “Is it raining over there? (Wa ba’y uwan-uwan diha?)” They are not talking about the much-prayed for rain to water the dried-up rice fields. They are referring to the cash and goodies

                           By ELLEN T. TORDESILLAS WHEN it was reported that voters could cast their votes in shopping malls this coming elections,  I thought it was a good idea. It’s like going to mass in a mall and proceed to the grocery and shopping

STATEMENT: Independent presidential candidate Grace Poe, during the March 20 PiliPinas Debates 2016 in Cebu, mentioned several numbers. On the topic of clean energy, she said: “Yung ating solar energy ay importante, wind energy malaki ang potential, nasa 70,000 megawatts ang madadagdag, pati na rin ang hydro at least 30,000 megawatts sa Mindanao pa lamang.”

By ELLEN T. TORDESILLAS IT was almost midnight when Sen. Grace Poe made it to retired Col. Ariel Querubin’s birthday at the Clubhouse at Camp Aguinaldo last Monday. But she looked happy and energized. She told the remaining few guests that she came from the proclamation rally of former President Joseph Estrada, who is running

STATEMENT: Presidential candidate Rodrigo Duterte, responding to a question about coal and pollution during the second presidential debates on March 20, brought up the El Niño phenomenon and said it is climate change. “You know, even climate change, climate change does not have to be discussed. It is here. El Niño is the climate change. Kaya nga yung

PRESIDENTIAL candidate Rodrigo Duterte said in a speech to the Rotary Club of Manila last Jan. 14 he was once charged with acts of lasciviousness. But in the first presidential debate in Cagayan de Oro on Feb. 21, he denied such cases. A video of Duterte’s speech to the Rotarians was uploaded to YouTube by “Duterte Movement.” Duterte:  “In fact,

STATEMENT: In an interview in Mati, Davao Oriental on March 2, vice presidential candidate Francis “Chiz” Escudero said the Philippines is one of the remaining five countries in the world without a K to12 Education System. Asked about educational reforms the country needs, he said, “Isa na lamang sa limang bansa sa mundo ang Pilipinas na

By MARIA FEONA IMPERIAL DESPITE getting the high court’s nod to run as president, Senator Grace Poe continues to be hounded by issues on her citizenship. This was evident as she lost her cool Sunday, when her allegiance, particularly her supposed renouncement of her Filipino citizenship, was questioned by Vice President Jejomar Binay during the

  By ELLEN T. TORDESILLAS FORMER Comelec Commissioner Gregorio Larrazabal, who is now consultant of the Nationalist People’s Coalition, said the Commission on Elections cannot postpone the May 9 elections as it is being floated now. He said there is only one option for Comelec: “To conduct automated elections on May 9, 2016.” Former Senator

  By ELLEN T. TORDESILLAS IT’S as simple as that. Former Senator Richard Gordon who is running again for the Senate slammed officials of the Commission on Elections for painting a doomsday scenario if they were to comply with the Supreme Court decision to have the election machines on May 9 issue receipts of the

By MARIA FEONA IMPERIAL IT is no joke to start over. Less than two months before the May 9 polls, the Commission on Elections has resorted to voicing a plea to the high court to rethink its demand of issuing vote receipts. Otherwise, there may be failure of elections, the Comelec said Friday. “There is a strong

By MARIA FEONA IMPERIAL AS the five presidential candidates tried to outsmart each other in the first PiliPinas Debates held in Cagayan de Oro last month, one community watching it on television or online simply couldn’t relate: the Filipino Deaf. The Commission on Elections and GMA News Inc., its media partner for the historic debate,