January 23, 2010
SEN. LOREN LEGARDA YESTERDAY URGED THE COMMISSION ON ELECTIONS TO EXTEND THE REGISTRATION OF FILIPINO VOTERS IN FOREIGN COUNTRIES “SO AS TO EXTEND TO THEM THE PRIMARY RIGHT OF SUFFRAGE.”
There are an estimated eight to ten million overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) and emigrants, including dual citizens, abroad. Under Philippine election laws, they are all entitled to vote.
“The right to vote is the primary right of every Filipino citizen or dual citizen,” Loren said. “It is the duty of […]
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January 23, 2010
MANILA, PHILIPPINES – THE AUTOMATED ELECTION SYSTEM THAT WILL BE IMPLEMENTED IN THE MAY 2010 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS HAS NOT STOPPED FLYING VOTERS AND MULTIPLE REGISTRANTS.
The Commission on Elections (Comelec) yesterday reported the discovery of 43,000 multiple registrants despite having computerized the voters’ list.
Comelec Commissioner Rene Sarmiento said the poll body found 43,000 voters from the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao and the Cavite-Laguna-Batangas-Rizal-Quezon (Calabarzon) area who have intentionally registered twice or even thrice.
“If you will look at […]
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January 22, 2010
MANILA, PHILIPPINES–THE TALK OF THE TOWN’S SOCIAL CIRCLES ARE THE WEALTHY MATRONS WHO LOST THEIR PRIZED JEWELRY AND FAMILY HEIRLOOMS TO A SWEET-TALKING FORMER AIDE OF A PROMINENT SOCIALITE. IT SEEMS THAT THE AIDE PERSUADED THE MATRONS TO LET HER SELL THEIR JEWELRY AT A BIG PROFIT. SHE LEFT WITH THEM PERSONAL CHECKS AS GUARANTEE. AFTER THE SALE, SHE PAID THE OWNER, GOT BACK HER PERSONAL CHECK, AND SPLIT THE PROFIT.
Everything went well, until her checks began bouncing. When […]
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January 22, 2010
MANILA, PHILIPPINES – SEN. LOREN LEGARDA DEFENDED HERSELF YESTERDAY OVER CRITICISMS THAT SHE IS A POLITICAL TURNCOAT FOR SHIFTING LOYALTIES FROM ONE POLITICAL PARTY TO ANOTHER.
Legarda took a potshot at her rival, Sen. Manuel Roxas II, whom she said initially became a Cabinet secretary under former President Joseph Estrada, later on under the Arroyo administration, then joined calls for President Arroyo to resign.
Apparently irked by insinuations from her detractors that she is a political turncoat, Legarda explained she […]
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January 22, 2010
SEN. LOREN LEGARDA YESTERDAY WARNED AGAINST “MIDNIGHT FIRE SALES” BY THE ADMINISTRATION OF GOVERNMENT PROPERTIES AMOUNTING TO BILLIONS OF PESOS.
Loren said that the Arroyo administration should stop efforts to sell prime government assets, such as the Food Terminal Inc., “to avoid suspicions that these transactions could be midnight fire sales at giveaway prices and made to support dubious political purposes.”
Loren issued the warning after Finance Secretary Margarito Teves announced that the government was targeting to sell three “big […]
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