Debates!

After talking about it since last year, the Memorandum of Agreement for the staging of Presidential Debates for the 2016 elections, was finally signed today! This marks the first concrete step towards staging the first COMELEC-spearheaded presidential debates for over two decades. Next step: get the candidates committed to participating!

Unity

Reports of the COMELEC’s disarray have been exaggerated. That was essentially the message delivered – rather bluntly if I’m being very honest about it – by the Commission en banc today, when all seven commissioners trooped out onto the Session Hall and gave the lie to speculation that the COMELEC was falling apart from discord, […]

Midnight Run

We’ve been doing these midnight runs to mark the start of the Election Period – and the Gun Ban – since the Chairmanship of Ben Abalos. It might seem like a public relations event, more than anything else, but it does fulfill a very important function – it highlights what a proper Gun Ban checkpoint […]