Archive - PHL Vote 2022

This is false. An investigation into the alleged hacking is still in progress.

When one aspires to be president of the country, it is correct to assume that one must submit one’s self to public scrutiny. A presidential candidate is fair game and running for chief executive must be treated as a job interview before the sovereign people.

When the first Ferdinand Marcos was ousted from power almost a month short of forty years today, the Philippines could have been plunged into civil war.

So many things were not quite right in the Manila Bulletin news report about the alleged hacking of the Commission on Election (Comelec) website.

Our collective attention is being called by the blogger who goes by the Twitter handle of Miyako Izabel (“writer and independent publisher, political blogger and social media activist, existentialist and public anthropologist, Filipino and citizen of the world”).

The runaway winner in the surveys for preferred presidential candidates in the May elections has become the butt of jokes in the past few days because of his absence in last Friday's preliminary conference on a disqualification case against him at the Commission on Elections (Comelec).

Robredo answered 14 out of 18 questions correctly.

Having served a term each for various elective positions does not absolve presidential aspirant and former senator Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos from the penalty of perpetual disqualification from running for public office with the finality of his 1997 tax evasion conviction, according to retired Supreme Court (SC) senior associate justice Antonio Carpio. The former magistrate made the declaration in a 1Sambayan online forum on Jan. 6.

​ Latest election surveys showed that if elections were held today, Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. would be the 17th president of the Republic of the Philippines.

I am told, over and over, that one of the reasons why Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr is so high up in the polls is because millions of Filipinos have been made to believe in the “Marcos gold”.

There was no such filing, but several netizens believed otherwise and failed to recognize that the post was satire.