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Since March when Vote 2010 was unveiled in VERA Files website, our local partners have been actively sending us stories which give us a picture of the situation in the provinces this election season.
In Iloilo, Melvin Purzuelo of Green Forum Western Visayas said there is no clear party lines. It’s halo-halo. His report:
“As if the automation of the May 10 polls were not complicated enough, local political formations here are making the upcoming elections more confusing.
“Mayor Jerry Trenas, who is running for congressman, and Vice Mayor Jed Mabilog, who is running for mayor, have formed an alliance with only the two of them as common candidates. Trenas supports the Nacionalista Party (NP) for the national positions while Mabilog is with the Liberal Party (LP).
Most presidential bets seek new mining code
by Roslyn Arayata
Alyansa Tigil Mina
Majority of the presidential candidates favor a revision of the country’s mining policy, a survey of a network of green groups revealed.
Conducted on the third week of February by the Green Electoral Initiative (GEI) led by EcoWaste Coalition and Greenpeace, the results showed that six of the seven candidates who responded to the GEI survey support the passing of an Alternative Mining Code.
Iloilo City candidates go for Cha-cha
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Iloilo City candidates go for Cha-Cha
by Melvin Purzuelo
Green Forum-Western Visayas
Iloilo City. —It’s yes to “Cha-cha” and to mining for all three congressional candidates here.
It’s heartening to see the enthusiasm of people not involved with the campaign of any of the candidates in the forthcoming polls in making sure that the May 2010 elections be honest, peaceful, and credible.
Since it was launched last March 8, VOTE 2010, an election monitoring project of VERA Files with 17 civil society organizations, eight community newspapers, three media-related institutions and a number of individuals, has been steadily getting reports from citizen-journalists, which are not reported in mainstream media.
Immediately after the first part of our two-weekend seminar-workshop on citizen journalism at the Holy Angel University in Angeles city, one of the participants, Joel Ocampo , who is active in the Social Action Center of the Holy Rosary Parish, took pictures of posters of candidates nailed on trees which is a illegal.
Section 22 of Comelec Resolution 8758, which implements the Fair Election Act (Republic Act 9006) provides that political posters can only be displayed in Comelec-designated areas. It also clearly states that “A common poster area does not refer to a post, a tree, the wall of a building or an existing public structure that is in active use, but a structure that is temporarily set up by the candidates or political parties for the exclusive purpose of displaying their campaign posters.”
By Danny Sabino GENERAL SANTOS CITY—At least three areas in Central Mindanao will be free from guns, goons and gold this May elections, as long…