CONTRIBUTED BY ILANG ILANG QUIJANO Bulatlat QUEZON PROVINCE—A young election volunteer in the municipality of Sariaya in Quezon Province has complained of surveillance and harassment by suspected military agents, bringing her case to the attention of foreign delegates from the Peoples International Peoples Observers Mission (IOM) visiting the area. Irene Añoso, a nineteen-year old poll…
Day: May 16, 2007
Quezon Municipal, Provincial Canvassing Anomalous – Int’l Observers
CONTRIBUTED BY ILANG-ILANG QUIJANO POSTED BY BULATLAT ELECTION WATCH/ BREAKING NEWS May 16, 2007 – 5:42 p.m. QUEZON PROVINCE—Foreign observers from the People’s International Observers Mission (IOM) found anomalous practices during the municipal and provincial canvassing of votes, including cases of police personnel being involved in the transport of ballot boxes and poll watchers being…
Abalos Incensed at Reports of Police Intervention in Pasig Canvassing
TEXT AND PHOTOS BY DABET CASTAÑEDA Bulatlat ELECTION WATCH/BREAKING NEWS May 16, 2007 – 4:45pm Commission on Elections (Comelec) Chairman Benjamin Abalos was alarmed over news that election officers were asked to leave the canvassing area at the Pasig Sports Center at around 7:30 p.m. May 15. “That should not be the case. We are…
Mass Protest over Poll Irregularities In Nueva Ecija Ongoing
BY ABNER BOLOS Gitnang Luzon News Service Posted by Bulatlat ELECTION WATCH/ BREAKING NEWS May 16, 2007 – 4:05 p.m. NUEVA ECIJA—The People’s International Observers Mission (IOM) team in Nueva Ecija witnessed today a crowd of more than five hundred people massing up in front of the Guimba town hall in protest of alleged poll…
Crowd Defies Comelec Control in Guimba, Nueva Ecija
BY LISA ITO BULATLAT ELECTION WATCH/ BREAKING NEWS May 16, 2007 – 3:20 p.m. NUEVA ECIJA, PHILIPPINES—Foreign observers visiting the town of Guimba, Nueva Ecija are now in the middle of a scuffle between supporters of a mayoralty candidate bent on defying Commission on Elections (Comelec) orders and military troops. According to reports from the…
A Vibrant Democracy Does Not Suppress Progressive Party-Lists – Int’l Observers
BY LISA ITO BULATLAT ELECTION WATCH/ BREAKING NEWS May 16, 2007 – 1:57 p.m. As the canvassing of party-list votes start today, foreign delegates from the Peoples International Observers Mission (Peoples IOM) expressed concern over reports of disenfranchisement, black propaganda, and harassment of progressive party list organizations in the urban poor communities of Tondo. Members…
Political Dynasties Hinder Filipinos Exercise To Vote
BY ABNER BOLOS Gitnangluson.com Posted by Bulatlat ELECTION WATCH/BREAKING NEWS May 16, 2007- 12:09am City of San Fernando, Pampanga – “This year’s elections in the Philippines made me realize just how much political dynasties (and militarization) heavily influence Filipinos’ free exercise of their right to vote.” This is what Ms. Aimee Beboso, a Filipino-Canadian had…