The COMELEC today filed a Motion for Judicial Determination of the Medical Condition of former President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, together with a request for the issuance of subpoenas to produce her medical abstracts, and for her attending physicians to testify on her present medical condition.
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If the COMELEC is forced to re-investigate allegations of fraud in the 2007 elections, as a result of a finding of unconstitutionality of the joint panel by the SC, all personalities will come under scrutiny once more. Including those already exonerated. This according to COMELEC Chairman Sixto S. Brillantes Jr.
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It always bothers me when people say that voters can’t be trusted, especially when it comes to selling their votes. It betrays precisely the kind of cynicism that teaches politicians it’s okay to resort to money in order to win.
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This is my article in the 23 November 2011 edition of the Business Mirror. LAST Friday the Commission on Elections (Comelec) filed a case for electoral sabotage against former President—now member of the House of Representatives—Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, and two co-accused. Aside from filing the criminal information, Comelec also asked the judge to issue a […]
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You know this already. The SC didn’t issue a TRO on the work of the joint DOJ-COMELEC panel, directing the COMELEC to comment on the petitions filed by Mr. Mike Arroyo and former COMELEC Chairman Benjamin S. Abalos. That’s cool and all. But what we’re really dying to know is if the Court thinks that […]
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It’s like mainlining a double shot of espresso
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Last Friday, the COMELEC went ahead and did what a lot of people have only said they were going to do: bring the former President to court to account for her actions. Let’s not forget that, shall we, in the rush to equivocate. But equivocating it seems, is something the sphere of public discussion is […]
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Reports from COMELEC lawyers who attended today’s hearing indicate that the lawyers of former President Arroyo have already accepted that the Pasay CIty RTC has jurisdiction over the case. Hopefully that settles the question. Also, hearings on the various motions pending before the court will be heard on Friday. The COMELEC has also been directed […]
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The Supreme Court’s Spokesman, Court Administrator Midas Marquez just announced that the Temporary Restraining Order against the enforcement of the watch-list order against the former President remains in “full force and in effect.” This has prompted many to ask how that pronouncement will affect, or be affected by, the information for electoral sabotage very recently […]
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The COMELEC today filed a case for electoral sabotage, in connection with the 2007 National and Local Elections, against Member of the House of Representatives Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo. The information was filed before the Pasay City Regional Trial Court. Charged together with the former President were former Governor Andal Ampatuan Sr., and former COMELEC official Lintang […]