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By YouthVotePhilippines It doesn’t look like a one-time, big debate will happen before Election Day. Despite talks between television giants ABS-CBN and GMA Network, a jointly organized debate remains unlikely as the leading presidential candidates appeared lukewarm to the idea.

By MINDANEWS DAVAO CITY.–Accusations that the other party is planning to cheat in the May 10 elections have been traded between the camps of City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte and Speaker Prospero Nograles as the campaign enters the homestretch. Nograles is running for mayor against Vice Mayor Sara Duterte, the mayor’s daughter. His running mate is

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

By DANNY SABINO Kapayapaan Kapatid Council GENERAL SANTOS CITY. – “Siguradong matutuloy ang election na walang dayaang mangyayari (The elections will happen and there will be no cheating).” So said Police Chief Inspector Jomar Alexis Yap of the Philippine National Police  Region 12 during a recent interview at the local  radio station’s “Talakayan ng Pulisya

By MINDANEWS BUTUAN CITY.—Some 50 unidentified armed men attacked Friday night the house of the mayor of Malimono in Surigao del Norte wounding four persons, two of them the mayor’s security escorts. Wounded in the election-related incident caused by intense political rival are Rodolfo Ismaquil, Crispiniano Sajor, Angelo Sinaca and Renieboy Pedida, all residents of

HAD the elections been held last week, 10 of the 18 senatorial aspirants that have a “statistical chance of winning” would either be reelectionists or former senators, the latest Pulse Asia survey said. Incumbent senators Ramon “Bong” Revilla Jr. and Jinggoy Estrada continued to enjoy the lead in the senatorial race.  About 52.8 percent of

By ELLEN TORDESILLAS FORMER President Joseph  “Erap” Estrada of Pwersa ng Masang Pilipino (PMP) has edged out Sen. Manuel Villar Jr. of the  Nacionalista  Party in the No. 2 position in the May 10 presidential race in a survey conducted by the Magdalo, a group of reformist   junior military officers. The survey conducted  from April

VOTERS have varied planned activities for the May elections, according to the Social Weather Stations’ February survey. It said 26 percent plan to watch the counting of votes, 23 percent attend political rallies of candidates and 20 percent serve in organizations that will help in having an orderly and clean election.

By MINDANEWS DAVAO CITY.—“I am telling you now. There will be attempts to cheating… In fact, the cheating has begun. Some money is being distributed already… There will be attempts to bribe our armed forces and (these have) already begun”  Acting Defense Secretary Norberto Gonzales said in his closing remarks at the Bishops-Ulama Conference-AFP-PNP Forum

By MINDANEWS DAVAO CITY.—“What will we do in the religious sector if there is a major failure of elections?” Davao Archbishop Fernando Capalla asked at the 5th BUC-PNP-AFP Forum for peace among the Bishops-Ulama Conference, Philippine National Police and Armed Forces of the Philippines. “Things will happen only if people will allow things to happen,”

THE relatives of 12 journalists slain in the Nov. 23 Maguindanao massacre on Thursday asked Acting Acting Justice Secretary Alberto Agra vacate his 16 April 2010 resolution clearing two members of the Ampatuan clan of the killings. The petitioners also asked Agra to give them the opportunity to argue against and refute point by point

SEN. Benigno Aquino III continues to lead presidential candidates in next month’s elections, but former President Joseph Estrada has caught up with Sen. Manuel Villar Jr. Both are tied for second place, the latest Pulse Asia survey shows. While Sen. Manuel Roxas II also still leads in the vice presidential race, Makati City Mayor Jejomar