BUTUAN CITY (MindaNews/11 May) – The regional office of the Commission on Elections in Caraga (Region 13) reported a 70-percent voter turnout in the country’s first automated general elections. Regional Comelec Director Francisco Pobe declared the voting in the region
ILIGAN CITY (MindaNews/11 May) – The conduct of elections in Lanao del Norte can be considered generally peaceful despite delay in the transmission of results from 11 hinterland towns, Fr.Rey Pati-an, provincial head of the Pastoral Parish Council for Responsible
THE DAY AFTER. Unlike past elections when the day after is usually still tension-filled, in this year’s polling, soldiers rest under the shade of a tree at the Maguindanao provincial capitol in Shariff Aguak, Maguindanao a day after. MindaNews photo
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/11 May) – The political landscape here and in nearby South Cotabato has not changed much following Monday’s elections as the same familiar faces and family names dominated anew the race for various top posts in the
SHARIFF AGUAK, Maguindanao (MindaNews/11 May) — Datu Ombra Sinsuat and running mate Andal Ampatuan, Sr., are leading the gubernatorial race, followed by Lakas-Kampi’s Esmael “Toto” Mangudadatu and Ismael “Dustin” Mastura in 18 of 36 Maguindanao towns, records received by the
M11lanaosur Lanao Sur election death toll now 6; disorderly conduct of polls noted ILIGAN CITY (MindaNews/11 May) – Six persons have been killed in election related violence in Lanao del Sur, a poll watchdog said. Ibrahim Salic, head of Citizens
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/11 May) — The votes have been cast. And the results are miraculously, but pleasantly, almost complete just a day after the elections. Is this really the Philippines, one may ask? What indeed went wrong and what went
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/11 May) – Despite the initial setbacks caused by some malfunctioning precinct count optical scan or PCOS machines and largely disorganized system of voting, the Commission on Elections (Comelec) declared Monday’s automated national and local elections in
SSENATOR NINOY AQUINO, Sultan Kudarat (MindaNews/11 May) — Joseph Estrada won the Presidential race in this town named after the father of national frontrunner, Senator Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino. Estrada won 10,118 votes against Aquino’s 2,588; Manuel Villar’s 223; Eddie Villanueva’s
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/11 May) – Had it been a boxing match, the referee could have declared it a first round knockout win by boxing champion Manny ‘Pacman’ Pacquiao. Relying on his vaunted fame and fortune, Pacquiao practically stunned administration
Davao City Rodrigo Duterte feeds his ballot at PCOS machine at his voting precincts at Daniel R. Aguinaldo High School in Matina on Monday afternoon. Duterte and his daughter Sara who is running for mayor, are leading against opponents Benjamin
MLAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/11 May) — In one of his campaign streamers hung along the highway, former Valencia City mayor Jose Galario Jr. vowed “I shall return.” But Galario, defeated in 2007 by Leandro Jose Catarata who lost to him in
SHARIFF AGUAK, Maguindanao (MindaNews/11 May) – The national count in the Commission on Elections has higher figures and results may have changed, but out here in the provincial capitol, where provincial canvassing is being held at the Sangguniang Panlalawigan’s session
M11mayors (MALAYBALAY CITY) — In one of his campaign streamers hung along the highway, former Valencia City mayor Jose Galario Jr. vowed “I shall return.” But Galario, defeated in 2007 by Leandro Jose Catarata who lost to him in 2004,
BUTUAN CITY (MindaNews/10 May) – “Unsystematic” procedures and faulty precinct count optical scan (PCOS) machines are to blame for the delays in the voting in several parts of the city, the Parish Pastoral Council for Responsible Voting (PPCRV) of the
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/10 May) — Although it has been placed under Comelec control, voting in the city was generally peaceful, Mayor Rodrigo Duterte said. (Keith Bacongco/Mindanews) Duterte, who is running for vice mayor, told reporters there were no reports of
PAGATIN, Datu Salibo, Maguindanao (MindaNews/10 May) – Despite delays and reports of explosion, voting in Maguindanao today was “generally peaceful with isolated and confined violent incidents at few expected traditional contested areas,” Brig.[] Gen. Ariel Bernardo, Assistant Division Chief and
PAGATIN, Datu Salibo, Maguindanao (MindaNews/10 May) – Despite delays and reports of explosion, voting in Maguindanao today was “generally peaceful with isolated and confined violent incidents at few expected traditional contested areas,” Brig. Gen. Ariel Bernardo, Assistant Division Chief and
