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Tag: 2010 elections
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At the end of the filing of certificates of candidacy for the 2010 elections midnight of December 1, 2009, the Commission on Elections has received 99 aspirants for the presidency, 20 for the vice presidency and 158 for a seat in the Senate.
Ferdinand Rafanan, head of the Comelec’s law department, they will also prune the list of applicants motu propio by eliminating those considered as nuisance candidates. He expects the number to be cut into half easily.
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I would have been happy to have been proven wrong when I joined those who said that if you allow Gloria Arroyo to stay on until 2010, she will never give up power.
As member of the House of Representatives, she can create a bloc of like-minded congressman who are only after their own selfish interest and push to amend the Constitution that would change the system of government from presidential to parliamentary. She can then aspire to become prime minister and be in power again.
Justice Antonio Carpio on SC (Nachura) decision: Disaster waiting to happen
By Norman Bordadora
Philippine Daily Inquirer
The Supreme Court on Tuesday struck down as unconstitutional those provisions in the election laws that consider appointed officials to be resigned once they filed their certificates of candidacy (CoCs), the court spokesperson said.
Deputy court administrator Jose Midas Marquez said the court en banc voted to consider those provisions violative of the equal protection clause under the Constitution.
Unlike elective officials, the appointive officials are mandated by law to resign after they file their CoCs.
Capt. Dante Langkit is running for governor of Kalinga and former Air Force Lt. Ashley Acedillo is a candidate for representative of the first disctrict of Cebu.
Langkit is facing mutiny charges for allegedly planning to withdraw support from Gloria Arroyo together with 27 other officers in February 2006 following the expose of the “Hello Garci” tapes which revealed that Arroyo used the military to tamper the results of the 2004 elections to her favor.
Thinking that they could break Langkit’s will, his custodians put him in a solitary confinement for 10 months, the longest that an officer was subjected to such harsh condition.Langkit held firm to his convictions.
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Trillanes blames Arroyo for massacre
by Romel Regalado Bagares
COTABATO CITY.–Peruvian forensic anthropologist Dr. Jose Pablo Baraybar didn’t like what he saw when he visited for the first time Sunday the massacre site in Barangay Salman, Ampatuan town.
Baraybar said the “topography of the crime” in Ampatuan town is eerily similar to that he had found as a United Nations expert serving in the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda.
Iba-ibang paraan ang sinubukan ni Gloria Arroyo para manatili siya sa kapangyarihan habang buhay.
Nandiyan yung charter change. Ipinasa ng mga tutal niya sa House of representatives. Hindi nakarating sa Senado.
May mga senyales na binalak niya ang martial law. Kaya ipinuwesto niya sa mga strategic na posisyun ang mga nasa PMA Class ’78, kung saan honorary member siya. Binalaan siya ng Amerika.
Photos of Erap-Binay, Villar-Loren and Noynoy-Mar
As of today, more than 50 have filed certificates of candidacy for president in the 2010 elections.
Erap came driving a jeepney, reviving his 1998 “Jeep ni Erap” motif, with the senatorial candidiates as passengers. His senatorial candidates include his son, re-electionist Jinggoy Estrada, Senate President Juan Ponce-Enrile, Jose “Joey” de Venecia III, Rep. Rodolfo Plaza, former Negros Occidental Rep. Apolinario Lozada.
Marami ang nakapansin na sa pag-aresto kay Mayor Andal Ampatuan,mayor ng bayan ng Datu Unsay, hindi siya nakaposas. Escorted siya ng mga ahente ng National Bureau of Investigation at kasama rin niya si Presidential Adviser Jesus Dureza.
Sabi ni Justice Secretary Agnes Devanadera sa mga reporter na sumalubong sa kanila s airport, “He is properly restrained.”
Si Andal Ampatuan ang tinuturong nag-utos na pagpapatayin sina Vice Mayor Esmael Mangudadatu at ang kanyang mga kasamahan sa Maguindanao. Ang namatay ay ang asawa ni vice mayor, kapatid at 55 pa. Ayon sa report, 37 sa mga napatay at nawawala pa (hindi pa siguro nakikita ang mga bangkay) ay mga journalist. Ang iba ay mga kasamahan ng mga Mangudadatu at at iba ay talagang namalas lang na nagbibiyahe kasabay ng mga Mangudadatu.
After Edsa 1, Andal was appointed OIC mayor
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It’s interesting how the Ampatuan clan’s political fortunes seem to be turning full circle—and how political camps that now call them “monsters” seem to have conveniently forgotten that they had something to do with how these “monsters” were bred to begin with.
Liberal Party presidential bet Aquino, sure that violence in Maguindanao would escalate due to “this administration’s inaction,” is demanding the suspension of Mayor Andal Ampatuan Jr. and other local officials found involved in the November 23 massacre of civilians.
Note from Fr. Eliseo “Jun” Mercado:
Datu Andal Sr. was the henchman of Marcos in Maganoy in 1986.. He also was de facto mayor… acting since he was the vice mayor and already appointed as OIC.
Cory removed him from Office!!! I was a witness to that!
The Chief of Police, another Ampatuan yet non political and decent by the name of Datu Mod Ampatuan was appointed by Cory as OIC! I was the one who recommemnded for Datu Modi. He is an Ampatuan so he could maintain order and rule of law being the modest and clean chief of police in the place.
But in the first election post Cory, Datu Andal, Sr was back in power… since he was and still is the undisputed power in Maganoy.
I was the parish priest of Maganoy at the time and NAMFREL chair of the Province.
We don’t know if the senator realizes that he is in effect calling on the Arroyo government to undo an action by his mother’s administration.