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“Amid much-publicized rehabilitation efforts in the city’s most affected areas, the promise to rebuild the lives of the victims and survivors of the siege remains utterly unfulfilled.”
“Supreme Court ruling is the commercial fishers’ legal action to stop and to silence small fishers from complaining and protesting” against the encroachment of commercial fishing vessels in areas previously identified by the Fisheries Code as Municipal Waters and exclusively for the use of municipal fishers.
The call for accountability must be continuous, the campaign for better solutions must be continuous.”
RA 8436, like RA 9369, did not provide for hybrid elections, but the Supreme Court nevertheless allowed it because one of the primary mandates of Comelec, simply put, is to make sure that the votes of the Filipino people during elections are counted.
“It is dismaying to learn that these are not mere technical glitches but signs of systemic neglect that effectively disenfranchise thousands of Filipino voters,” said APHR Chair Mercy Chriesty Barends.
“There is no harmonised version of the election code, nor a mechanism to document which provisions are no longer in force. This affects the legal certainty of the texts, as is the case with the applicable provisions on international observation. Campaign finance is insufficiently regulated,” the mission stated.
“Vote-buying is also rooted in poverty. When daily life is a struggle, then some food, a small amount of money, essential services, or healthcare offered in exchange for votes can feel like a tangible benefit,” said Marta Temido, chief observer of the European Union Election Observation Mission (EUEOM).
“If you don't know what kind of software is installed in the automated counting machine, it’s difficult to determine if it could be used for electronic cheating,” Kontra Daya convener Danilo Arao
“I hope the candidates I chose govern well and I hope they address corruption, which is why I voted for candidates who would do so,” Cassandra says.
"From the lack of community consultations, to the railroading of the implementation of the online voting, COMELATE has done too little, too late," said Bayan Muna Hongkong Spokesperson Lai Besana.
“This unexplained discrepancy casts serious doubt on the accuracy and reliability of the Automated Canvassing Machine (ACM) used in the elections, raising the specter of either grave machine error or outright electoral fraud,” said Bayan Muna - Panay.
Numerous cases of accidental ‘overvotes’ were reported since the morning of the 2025 midterm elections today, May 12.
Illegal campaigning in several places in the Philippines is still prevalent during the 2025 midterm election on Monday, May 12.
Progressive coalition Makabayan is calling for manual counting amid reports of uncounted votes—due to “undervoting and overvoting”— that surfaced today on election day, and the reported change in software version of automated counting machines (ACM).
Despite regulations prohibiting their presence in voting areas, policemen were spotted in several precincts in the country.
Election watchdogs Vote Report PH and Kontra Daya reported that 42.11 percent of the 79 verified incidents received today, May 12, are related to Automated Counting Machine (ACM) errors.
As the national and local midterm elections start as early as 5 in the morning today, May 12, complaints of problems and violations also flood, with many claiming that some of their votes were voided because of “over-voting.”
“We are a peasant family. We do not have our own land because my father was only a tenant although we had farm animals and tools. I experienced how difficult the lives of peasant farmers were. We really did not have enough even to cover the basic necessities. I wanted to change that."
“If the Comelec fails to make an accounting of this process, then there is every reason to doubt the results of the election.”
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