Elections 2010 News

10 Ampatuans implicated in massacre are candidates

GMANews.TV - Wednesday, February 10

DAVAO CITY – Only two of the 12 prominent Ampatuans implicated in the November 23, 2009 massacre in Maguindanao are not running for any posts in this year’s elections. More »

  • Opening salvos fired

    Opening salvos fired

    Philstar.com - Wednesday, February 10

    MANILA, Philippines - Campaign posters went up and jingles blared at election rallies and motorcades all over the country yesterday as the country’s richest politician and the son of its democracy icon fired the opening salvos in the tight race to succeed President Arroyo.

  • Amid powerhouse campaigns, party-list groups try a different tack

    GMANews.TV - Wednesday, February 10

    While the big guns of established political parties fielding full national slates for the May elections fired their first salvos of the campaign season with full-scale sorties on Tuesday, party-list groups set out on a much simpler grassroots approach, foregoing celebrities and gimmickry.

  • Villar caps first campaign day with song, fireworks

    GMANews.TV - Wednesday, February 10

    Senator Manuel Villar Jr. on Tuesday evening capped the first day of his 90-day campaign for presidency with a song number.

  • Gibo highlights LGU support in kick-off sortie

    GMANews.TV - Wednesday, February 10

    Forty district representatives, twenty city mayors, and over a hundred local executives from all over the country attended Tuesday’s sortie of the Lakas-Kampi-CMD in Antipolo City to officially kick-off the nationwide campaign of its standard-bearer, Gilberto Teodoro Jr.

  • 197 people charged with murder over Philippine massacre

    AFP - Wednesday, February 10

    A former close ally of Philippine President Gloria Arroyo and 196 other people were on Tuesday charged with murder over an election-linked massacre that horrified the nation, prosecutors said.

  • Gordon, Fernando break into song on first day of campaign

    GMANews.TV - Wednesday, February 10

    (Updated 9:59 PM) Senator Richard Gordon reportedly hates to sing.

  • 30K expected to witness Gibo-Edu rally in Antipolo

    GMANews.TV - Wednesday, February 10

    Administration party Lakas-Kampi-CMD on Tuesday afternoon kicked off its campaign for the May elections with a motorcade from its headquarters in EDSA to Antipolo City, where a proclamation rally will be held at the Ynares Center.

  • Violence, tight race mark Philippine poll campaign

    AP - Tuesday, February 9

    Campaign posters went up and jingles blared at election rallies Tuesday as the Philippines' richest politician and the son of its democracy icon began a tight race to succeed scandal-tainted President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo.

  • Presidential bets kick off campaigns with gimmicks

    GMANews.TV - Tuesday, February 9

    Presidential aspirants kicked off their crusade with various publicity stunts on Tuesday, the start of the campaign season for the May 10 national and local elections.

  • Roxas urges Tarlac folk to back Noynoy

    Manila Bulletin - Tuesday, February 9

    Sen.

  • Gibo, Edu open campaign in Antipolo, vow to visit faraway places

    Manila Bulletin - Tuesday, February 9

    Lakas-Kampi CMD standardbearer Gilberto "Gibo" Teodoro Jr. hit the campaign trail Tuesday vowing to go to towns and places he has not visited before while drawing inspiration from the Star Trek's going "where no man has gone before."

    "Aside from continuing my campus visits to explain my platform of governance to our youth groups, we are planning to go to the provinces and meet sectors we haven't visited yet," Teodoro said.

    Green was the color of the day as thousands of supporters packed the Ynares Center in Antipolo City for the proclamation rally of the Lakas bets led by Teodoro and his running mate, Edu Manzano.

    The campaign theme color symbolizes "interfaith," "unity," and "concern for the environment," he said.

    Teodoro said he believed his public opinion rating among presidential candidates will go up as the 90-day campaign progresses and when local officials of the ruling party start their campaign this March.

  • Bet faces disqualification for violating gun ban

    Manila Bulletin - Tuesday, February 9

    The Philippine National Police (PNP) has asked the Commission on Elections (Comelec) to disqualify a mayoralty candidate in a Masbate town.

    Chief Superintendent Perfecto Palad, commander of the PNP Directorate for Integrated Police Operations in Southern Luzon, claimed that Ricardo Bulanon, who is running for mayor in San Pascual town, was not only implicated in some irregularities as provincial jail warden of Masbate but also for violating the nationwide election gun ban.

    Bulanon, it was recalled, was collared in a checkpoint with a provincial jail guard in Barangay Tugbo, Masbate City during the first day of implementation of gun ban on January 10 after they yielded handguns.

    "There is a reasonable ground for disqualification of the above-mentioned subject candidate (Bulanon) for the violation of RA (Republic Act 8294 (Illegal Possession of Firearms)," said Palad, citing a clarification made by the regional director of Comelec in Calabarzon area.

    Bulanon is currently out on bail for the charge of illegal possession of firearms stemming from his arrest on January 10.

    Aside from citing the case levelled against Bulanon, Palad also revealed that the latter has been the subject of investigation in connection with the involvement of a detainee in Masbate Provincial jail in kidnap-for-ransom activities in Metro Manila.

    Palad was referring to Albert Choy who was among the four suspected kidnap men killed in a shootout with cops in Paranaque City last year.

    Choy was supposed to be in the custody of the Masbate Provincial Jail at the time of the shootout after he was tagged as one of the gunmen in the shooting of Masbate City Mayor Moises Espinosa Jr. on August 10, 2001 in Masbate City.

    Palad told the Comelec in a letter that Bulanon is liable for a case of infidelity in the custody of prisoner in connection with Choy's questionable release.

    The official said that it was only when Bulanon was confronted by police investigators more than two months after Choy was killed that he made a report that Choy slipped past his guards in Camarines Sur while he was being transferred to the Masbate provincial jail.

    It was learned that Choy was supposed to be transferred to Masbate after he finished his jail term at the National Bilibid Prisons in Muntinlupa City for the case of illegal possession of firearms which led to his conviction.

    Bulanon was suspended in connection with the Choy case but was later reinstated.

    Earlier, the PNP leadership revealed that some inmates of the Masbate Provincial Jail were being released from their detention to do some dirty works for local politicians, among them are raising fund for them through robbery and kidnapping and killing their political adversaries.

  • Poll bets hit ground running Tuesday

    Manila Bulletin - Tuesday, February 9

    The 90-day campaign period for president, vice president, 12 senators, and 57 party-list representatives in the May 10, 2010 fully automated elections got off the ground Tuesday, with major political parties virtually using it as a show of force while lesser known parties used it as a symbolic gesture of hope.

    This developed as the Commission on Elections (Comelec) officially turned over Tuesday the source code for the poll machines to the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) for safekeeping.

    Despite the obvious display of political strength, Tuesday's atmosphere was triumphant rather than riotous as the 45-day campaign period for members of the House of Representatives, governors, mayors, and other local positions will only start on March 26. The campaign period for both national and local positions ends May 8, 2010.

    The political muscle in the campaign trails were provided by the Liberal Party (LP), the Nacionalista Party (NP), Pwersa ng Masang Pilipino (PMP), and Lakas-Kampi-CMD, while Bangon Pilipinas Party gave the much needed symbolic gesture of hope.

    The LP, led by Sen.

  • Fidler without a roof

    Manila Bulletin - Tuesday, February 9

    ELECTIONS. My driver Pidong still cannot decide among Amboy, Lover Boy, Tom Boy, Kanto Boy, Tondo Boy or Mama's Boy.

  • Comelec issues survey guidelines

    Manila Bulletin - Tuesday, February 9

    Amid accusation that survey groups are guilty of "trending" to influence the outcome of elections in favor of certain candidates, the Commission on Elections (Comelec) issued the guidelines for holding surveys, including the exit polls.

    The guidelines require that the surveys, together with raw data gathered to support their conclusions, should be made available for inspection, copying and verification.

    The Comelec, led by Chairman Jose A.R. Melo, issued the guidelines based on the provisions of Republic Act 9006, the Fair Election Practices Act, directing the publication of the survey and disclosing the name of the person, candidate, party, or organization that commissioned or paid for the survey.

    Pollsters are also required to disclose the name of the person, polling firm or survey organization that conducted the survey, the period during which it was conducted, the methodology used, including the number of individual respondents and the areas which they were selected, and the specific questions asked.

    The margin of error of the survey is also required to be disclosed, including the mailing address and telephone number, indicating it as an address or telephone number at which the sponsor can be contacted to obtain a written report regarding the survey.

    Pollsters doing exit polls won't be allowed within 50 meters from the polling place.

  • Bishop to Lacson: Be man enough, face charges

    Philstar.com - Monday, February 8

    MANILA, Philippines – Sen.

  • Rivals attack Villar for ‘misleading’ ads

    GMANews.TV - Monday, February 8

    Presidential candidates in the May 10 elections took a swipe at Nacionalista Party standard bearer Senator Manuel Villar Jr. for his political ads, his claim to be pro-poor and supposed conflict of interest involving his businesses.

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