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(Eagle News) — The Commission on Elections (COMELEC) has started the canvassing of votes for the May 9, 2016 elections as polling precincts closed at 5 p.m, with some closing at 6 p.m., because of the delayed start of voting due to malfunctioning vote-counting machines. As of the latest Kapisanan ng Broadcaster of the Philippines-Eagle Broadcasting Corporation partial unofficial quick count of election returns from the Comelec, presidential candidate Rodrigo Duterte took an early lead […]
COMELEC Spokesperson James Jimenez, in an interview with NET25’s Desisyon ng Bayan 2016 Special Coverage, said that voting hours may be extended when there are verified malfunctions of Vote Counting Machines (VCM) in polling precincts. Jimenez explained that malfunctions would have to be verified by their technicians and replaced if need be, a process will surely take some time thus the need for the extension of voting hours. But Jimenez clarified that some reports of […]
Presidential candidate Senator Grace Poe casts her vote in Sta.Lucia Elementary School, San Juan City.
Ferdinand ‘Bong-Bong’ Marcos , vice-presidential candidate and son of the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos, cast his ballot in the presidential election at a polling station in Batac, Ilocos Norte.
The Philippines holds elections on Monday to choose a successor to President Benigno Aquino. Here are 10 crucial victories and setbacks that came to define his six years in office: August 23, 2010: Hong Kong hostage crisis – Barely two months in office, Aquino faces his first major crisis when a disgraced policeman takes a busload of Hong Kong tourists hostage. The gunman and eight hostages are killed in a hail of gunfire hours later […]
Presidential aspirant Mar Roxas casted his vote in Precinct 22A Rufina Andrada Santos Memorial School, Roxas City, Capiz. Roxas arrived in the polling place at 8:00 in the morning together with his wife, broadcaster Korina Sanchez-Roxas. His voting process lasted for about 10 minutes. After casting his vote, he faced the media to answer questions. Roxas was also accompanied by his mother Judy Araneta Roxas, his son Paolo, and other local candidates in Capiz. (Report […]
The Vote Counting Machines (VCM) in some precincts in New Era Elementary School suffered technical problems. In Precinct 3489A, casting of votes was stopped for over an hour because the VCM won’t accept the ballots. The Commission on Elections sent a technician to check the dysfunctional machine and was operational after 45 minutes of repair. Meanwhile, there were also reports of a technical glitch in the VCM in Precinct 3468B, Cluster 1648, in the same […]
MANILA, Philippines (AFP) Monday 5/9/2016 –Monday’s Philippine presidential election to replace Benigno Aquino is likely to turn on five key issues that candidates agree weigh on the minds of many of the nearly 55 million voters: Crime Popular anxiety over Filipinos’ personal safety has pushed tough-talking Rodrigo Duterte to the top of the polls. The nation has been troubled for decades by Muslim and communist insurgencies, Islamist militants, clogged courts and a corrupt police force. Duterte has […]
Former President Fidel V.Ramos voted early in his hometown in Narciso Ramos Elementary School Asingan,Pangasinan. Around 7:00am, the former President arrived in the polling place together with some oh his relatives running for office. Local police did not provide extra security for the 12th President. After casting his vote, Ramos posed for pictures with other residents. Ramos supports presidential aspirant Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte. .
MANILA, Philippines (AFP) Monday 5/9/2016 – Seven people were shot dead and another was wounded when a convoy of vehicles was ambushed in the Philippines Monday just hours before polls opened for national elections, police said. Unknown gunmen opened fire on the jeep and two motorcycles before dawn in the town of Rosario, just south of the capital Manila, said Chief Inspector Jonathan del Rosario. The motive for the attack was not yet known. However the incident […]
Vice President Jejomar Binay, together with his son former Makati City Mayor Junjun Binay cast their vote in San Antonio National HighSchool in Makati City, Philippines.
MANILA, Philippines (AFP) – Voting begins in the Philippines on Monday to elect a new president, with anti-establishment firebrand Rodrigo Duterte the shock favourite after an incendiary campaign in which he vowed to butcher criminals. Polls opened at 6:00am and voting is to continue until 5:00pm, election officials said. Duterte, the longtime mayor of the southern city of Davao, has held a commanding lead over other presidential rivals in recent surveys as he hypnotised millions with profanity-laced tirades promising […]
