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(Eagle News)–The Palace on Tuesday, May 13, backed Senator Koko Pimentel’s calls for a probe into the glitches that marred the voting process. “Anything that will be for the betterment of this country, we always support. Siguro marami nang nagrereklamo sa Smartmatic, e di let’s have the probe then by the Senate or by the House of Representatives,” Presidential pokesperson Salvador Panelo said. Panelo also called on the Commission on Elections to review the contract […]
(Eagle News)—Bong Go, who is poised to win a seat in the Senate, thanked all his supporters and President Rodrigo Duterte and his family for their trust. In a statement, Go admitted he never expected to win, and attributed his and his fellow Hugpong ng Pagbabago candidates’ impending victory to the Duterte’ administration’s “major accomplishments” and the President’s high rating. “Dalawampu’t isang taon akong naging isang trabahante. Isang assistant na walang hinangad na kapalit pero […]
(Eagle News)—President Rodrigo Duterte is slated to visit Japan by the end of May. Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo said this was so he could attend the annual Future of Asia conference upon the invitation of a representative of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. “..According to what I heard also is that when the President accepted that, the representative of the prime minister came here to thank (President Duterte),” Panelo said. Panelo did not say when exactly […]
(Eagle News)–Labor leader Leody de Guzman on Tuesday, May 14, conceded defeat in the senatorial elections. “Hindi tayo pinalad na makapasok sa winning circle pero pumasok naman tayo sa puso ng mga kabataang estudyante at organisadong seksyon ng mga manggagawa,” De Guzman said in a statement. According to De Guzman, even if he did not make it to the winning circle, “ikinatuwa ito ng maraming manggagawa na nakaalam ng makasaysayang pagkakaisa ng mga pambansang samahang […]
(Eagle News)—-Senator Kiko Pangilinan urged the public to remain vigilant as they await the final results of the canvassing of senatorial votes. “May pitong porsyento pa ng boto o mga 3 milyong boto na hindi pa nabibilang sa unofficial tally,” Pangilinan, who is also campaign manager of the Otso Diretso candidates, said. According to Pangilinan, “baka sakaling sa nasabing nalalabing pitong porsyento ay maipanalo pa ng isa o dalawa nating mga kandidato ang kanilang kandidatura.” […]
(Eagle News)–Hugpong ng Pagbabago senatorial candidate Jiggy Manicad has conceded defeat in the midterm elections. In a video uploaded on his Facebook account, Manicad, a former broadcast journalist, thanked all his supporters for their sacrifice. “Pero ganyan talaga ang eleksyon. Siyempre parang karera yan, may nananalo, may natatalo,” he said. He also thanked the people he said he became friends with during the campaign period: Senator Cynthia Villar, Bato dela Rosa, Bong Go, Pia Cayetano, […]
(Eagle News)–Otso Diretso senatorial bet Romulo Macalintal has conceded defeat. Macalintal announced the concession in a statement issued on Tuesday, a day after the May 13 elections. Macalintal who, as of Tuesday morning, based on partial unofficial results, was in 26th place in the senatorial race, is the first senatorial bet to wave the white flag. “From the results coming from all the clustered precincts, it is clear that a great majority of our voters […]
(Eagle News) — Senators Cynthia Villar and Grace Poe continued to top the senatorial race, followed by former Special Assistant to the President Christopher “Bong” Go in the latest unofficial and partial returns of the Commission on Elections. Still, no one from the Liberal party’s “Otso Diretso” senatorial slate managed to get in as of the partial Comelec results of 2:50 p.m., Tuesday, May 14, 2018. Villar got 24,463,539 votes topping the list, […]
(Eagle News) – The Commission on Elections said that it found around a thousand SD cards submitted to them to be defective, while 450 vote counting machines had malfunctioned. Comelec commissioner Rowena Guanzon said that the 1,000 defective SD cards were higher in number than the previous 120 SD cards which were found to be defective in the previous 2016 elections. In the monitoring done by the Comelec, Guanzon said that the 1,000 defective […]
(Eagle News)—The Palace on Monday, May 13, called on the public to be “on guard” and “vigilant” as counting of the votes begins. “The electoral fraud comes when the voters do not participate or involve themselves after they cast their votes,” Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo said. He said the public should not allow “those who seek to destroy our democratic process and trample our sacred votes have their way,” as he expressed hope the results […]
(Eagle News)—The Philippine National Police and the Armed Forces of the Philippines on Monday, May 13, lauded the peaceful conduct of the local and midterm elections. In a statement, Philippine National Police Chief Oscar Albayalde said there was “no reported major untoward incident that affected the overall turnout of the electoral exercise” as polling centers closed at 6 p.m. He said voting in the 36,831 centers nationwide also went ahead, even if there were brief […]
(Eagle News)–An accidental firing incident took place on Monday, May 13, at the Philippine International Convention Center, where the Commission on Elections has convened as the National Board of Canvassers, a Comelec official confirmed. Comelec spokesperson James Jimenez said the gun was accidentally fired as security personnel changed shifts during the day. He said, however, that no one was reported hurt. He said there was also no damage to property.
