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By CAROLYN O. ARGUILLAS MindaNews SHARIFF AGUAK, Maguindanao. – The Ampatuan patriarch, Datu Andal Ampatuan, Sr., lost his bid to become vice governor of Maguindanao but ten other clan members implicated in the November 23, 2009 massacre, won in Monday’s elections. At least 12 prominent members of the clan are implicated in the massacre, six

MANY Filipinos who cast their votes last Monday say they chose their candidate for president based on the candidate’s platform (45 percent) and personality (46 percent), according to the exit poll done by the Social Weather Stations. In fact, more than half had already decided whom to vote in earlier or February, the survey which

By MINDANEWS KIDAPAWAN CITY.– A winning candidate for the provincial board in Sultan Kudarat and his son were killed when shot by three armed men while they were on their way to the provincial canvassing center in the capital town of Isulan around 1:30 p.m. Wednesday, police reports said. Supt. Saiben Akmad, chief of the

The TV5-SWS exit poll  on the Votes for Senators, with partial sample of 35,825 voters from 731 out of 802 sampled voting centers encoded as of 9 p.m.of May 11:

By NORODIN MANALAO Citizens Coalition for ARMM Electoral Reforms COTABATO CITY.— Two unidentified persons killed a school principal on a busy street in this city Thursday morning. The incident happened at around 9 a.m. and was witnessed by sidewalk vendors and bystanders along the said street in Cotabato City.

BY ELLEN TORDESILLAS DESPITE a 75 percent turnout of voters and  80 percent of results known within 48 hours, the Center for People Empowerment in Governance (CenPEG)  and Halalang Marangal cautioned the public against claims of “success’ by the Commission on Elections. CenPEG’s director for policy studies, Bobby Tuazon, said the  Comelec  should  address  the

BY ELLEN TORDESILLAS A civil society group that had warned of failure of election  with the implementation of an untested nationwide automated elections said they they were  glad to have been proven wrong. The Concerned Citizens Movement, the group that went to the Supreme Court to stop  full automation of the May 10, 2010 elections

By VIOLETA M. GLORIA Mindanews ILIGAN CITY. — It’s all Dimaporos – mother, son and daughter – taking the highest elective posts in Lanao del Norte. Reelected governor is Mohamad Khalid Dimaporo, whose mother and former governor, Imelda Q. Dimaporo has been elected representative of Lanao del Norte’s first district. Khalid’s sister Fatimah Aliah will represent

THE Social Weather Stations is seeking P1 million in moral damages from defeated presidential candidate Sen. Richard Gordon for “debasing” its reputation at home and abroad. The research organization sought the compulsory counterclaim when it answered Gordon’s petition filed earlier before a Quezon City regional trial court to stop the publication of pre-election surveys of

By JONALYN FORTUNO and PAULINE DYCOCO WHILE Monday’s polls have been deemed successful, an election watchdog said the automation failed in at least one area: the transmission of votes. “While the counting is speedy, the transmission is not,” said Roan Libarios of Legal Network for Truthful Elections (LENTE) at a press conference held in Manila

By JULES L. BENITEZ and AL-KAMAR A. JIDIN Mindanews JOLO, Sulu.—With only two incidents of armed harassment and zero incidents of armed fighting, election day was generally peaceful in the province of Sulu, officials said. The two cases of armed harassment happened in the towns of Panglima Estino and Lugus on election day but no

COMMISSION on Elections Commissioners Rene Sarmiento and Gregorio Larrazabal on Tuesday night joined activists Fr. Robert Reyes and Ernesto Ordoñez in praying for people’s vigilance of government. Sarmiento and Larrazabal went to the tent that Alyansa Agrikultura, Kubol Pag-asa and Aksyon para sa Kapayapaan put up outside the gate of the Philippine International Convention Center,