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By LUCILLE SODIPE CEBU City — Just hours away from the opening of the May 9 elections, teachers assigned at a polling place here were informed they need to instantly set up an emergency accessible polling place (EAPP). In this video, find out how they still managed to assist persons with disabilities (PWDs) exercise their

By LUCILLE SODIPE [metaslider id=35664] CORDOVA, Cebu — “Remain faithful to your commitment to protect the votes of the people of Cordova. Good luck and God bless.” With these words, Fr. Roman Alaan blessed and sent off the election volunteers of Cebu-Citizens Involvement and Maturation in People’s Empowerment and Liberation (C-CIMPEL). The political action arm

By ALLAN YVES BRIONES IT was supposedly the Daang Matuwid Coalition’s last hurrah, the Liberal Party’s final appeal to convince the people that they are the right people to move the country forward come election day. Instead, those who attended the miting de avance at the Quezon City Memorial Circle Saturday, estimated to be between

Text and Photos by ALANAH TORRALBA AS he ended his campaign, Vice President Jejomar Binay called on President Benigno Aquino III to keep the May 9 elections orderly and honest. During the United Nationalist Alliance’s miting de avance in Barangay West Rembo in Makati on Saturday, supporters came in droves as catchy jingles played on

Photos by MARIO IGNACIO Video by JOHN FRANCES FUENTES CROWDS estimated at hundreds of thousands swelled the Luneta Park in Manila, as well as the Crocodile Park grounds in Davao City yesterday, in support of the final campaign day of presidential frontrunner Rodrigo Duterte. Duterte, in Luneta for his miting de avance, stuck with his

By ARIANNE CHRISTIAN G. TAPAO Sen. Miriam Defensor-Santiago, whose meme-worthy pickup lines had made her popular with the youth, ended her presidential campaign last night by gracing a street party on West Fourth Street in West Triangle, Quezon City. Her running mate Sen. Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr., who held his miting de avance in Mandaluyong

Text by AVIGAIL OLARTE Photos by LUIS LIWANAG SHE was back to where it all began. There in the historic Plaza Miranda in Quiapo, presidential candidate Grace Poe retold her story as a baby found on the footsteps of a church in Jaro. And on a solemn Saturday evening, just as the bells of Quiapo church

Text by ELLEN TORDESILLAS WRITER and political commentator Teddy Locsin Jr., summarizing the campaign for the  2016 elections, said of Grace Poe, the presidential candidate of Partido Galing at Puso: “To Grace, who has had to mature in such terrible adversity; and yet struggled without losing an ounce of the grace that is her name. I apologize

Photos by LUIS LIWANAG NECK and neck with administration bet Leni Robredo in the vice presidential race, Ferdinand Marcos Jr. capped his campaign with a miting de avance in Mandaluyong on May 5. His running mate, Miriam Defensor Santiago, was absent in the event and held a separate sortie in the University of Santo Tomas in Manila.

Photos by DANIEL ABUNALES and BERNARD VER PRESIDENTIAL aspirant Jejomar Binay had an interesting Monday last May 2. At 9 a.m., he attended Holy Mass at the Manila Cathedral officiated by Manila Archbishop Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle. Mar Roxas was also there. Binay and Roxas signed a covenant for “Truth” organized by the Archdiocese of

Photos by ALLAN YVES BRIONES and LUIS LIWANAG ON Saturday, two days before the elections, presidential frontrunner Rodrigo Duterte will make his final pitch to the public and hold a miting de avance at the Rizal Park. The event is expected to draw thousands, as had Duterte’s previous campaign events in various places in Metro Manila,

Text by ALANAH TORRALBA Photos by LUIS LIWANAG, ALANAH TORRALBA and ALLAN YVES BRIONES [metaslider id=35101] THE Roxas camp seems to be pulling out all the stops a few days before the May 9 national and local elections. On April 28, the Smart Araneta Coliseum, Mar Roxas’ home turf, glistened in yellow as thousands gathered