Archive - Vote 2013

By CAROLYN O. ARGUILLAS, MindaNews COTABATO CITY – OIC Governor Mujiv Hataman of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM), recently proclaimed winner in the ARMM gubernatorial race, has vowed to lower the double-digit poverty incidence in the country’s poorest region, to “single-digit during our term.” Among 17 regions nationwide, the five-province, two-city ARMM is

By VICENTE ALEJANDRO   CATBALOGAN City – It was like a game of musical chairs in Samar in Monday’s mid-term elections. With votes canvassed and winners proclaimed, the same names emerged but in different positions. In Catbalogan City, first councilor Stephany Uy-Tan of the Liberal Party was declared winner in the mayoralty race. Her father,

By MINDANEWS DAVAO CITY – Sixteen of 26 governors in Mindanao were reelected while 12 provinces elected members of the same families to both executive and legislative posts: three father and son teams, two brother and sister teams, three teams of brothers, a team of bother and two sisters, a wife and husband team; a

By VICENTE ALEJANDRO TACLOBAN City – Except for a lone congress seat snagged by a rival party, the Liberal Party (LP) won all the congressional and provincial positions in Leyte in the May 13 midterm elections. It was unopposed re-electionist, first district Rep. Ferdinand Romualdez of the Lakas Christian Muslim Democrat, a scion of a

By MIKHA FLORES and MELISSA LUZ LOPEZ THE Commission on Elections proclaimed three more senators-elect on Friday amid snowballing protests against the premature announcement of winners based only on a fraction of the results, with one watchdog describing it as “repugnant to the law.” The proclamation of Paolo Benigno “Bam” Aquino IV, Aquilino Martin “Koko”

By MIKHA FLORES COMMISSION on Elections Chairman Sixto Brillantes Jr. said he will resign if the six senators-elect proclaim med on Thursday will not be part of the Magic 12 once canvassing of election results is done. Brillantes dared critics to prove the proclamation of six senators Thursday night was premature. Critics say the certificate of

Race to the capitol | By YVONNE T. CHUA SAVE for tightly contested races in a handful of provinces, this year’s gubernatorial elections are all but over. But unlike in the congressional polls where President Benigno S. Aquino III and his Liberal Party have made significant strides, the ruling party will control in the next

By CAROLYN O. ARGUILLAS, MindaNews COTABATO CITY – Cheat? No, it’s CHEAT. Maguindanao Governor Esmael Mangudadatu denied allegations his team resorted to election irregularities in last Monday’s elections and rallied his people behind “CHEAT Maguindanao.” He said Maguindanao was viewed in past elections as “cheating capital,” apparently referring to the role Maguindanao, the vote-richest among

By MIKHA FLORES THE Commission on Elections, sitting as the National Board of Canvassers, proclaimed on Thursday the top six winning senators — five from Team PNoy and Nancy Binay from the United Nationalist Alliance (UNA), who snubbed the ceremony. Administration candidates Grace Poe-Llamanzares, Senators Loren Legarda, Francis “Chiz” Escudero and Alan Peter Cayetano, and

THE delay in the transmission of election canvass reports resulting in the postponement of the Commission on Elections’ proclamation of winning senatorial candidates has sparked talks of possible manipulation of election results. The Comelec on Wednesday deferred proclaiming the winners in the Senate race by a day, citing the slow pace of transmissions from provinces

By MYLENE LISONDRA CEBU City— Disability is not a hindrance. That has been Arleigh Sitoy’s mantra for the past five years. He proved that once again after winning a fresh term as member of the provincial board of Cebu’s 6th district in Monday’s elections. Sitoy is a person with disability (PWD). Because of a stroke

By YVONNE T. CHUA PRESIDENT Benigno Aquino III has further strengthened his lock on the House of Representatives with 108 members of the Liberal Party likely to make it to the 16th Congress, official and unofficial counts of Monday’s midterm elections show. The figure is a big leap from the 92 Liberals who make up