By Bulatlat.com MANILA -- Former Commission on Elections (Comelec) Commissioner Virgilio “Garci” Garcillano who was implicated in the 2004 electoral fraud, was charged with perjury and falsification of public documents. Bayan Muna Reps. Neri Colmenares and Teddy...
By MARYA SALAMAT
They have all been rewarded and chances are, they would be able to get away with it.
By Carol Pagaduan-Araullo Bulatlat.com The name of the game these days is “Will she or won’t she get away with it?” She of course refers to the woman with the unique voice and manner of speaking, caught redhanded via a wiretapped phone conversation, trying to...
BY ALEXANDER MARTIN REMOLLINO Bulatlat.com A former commissioner of the Commission on Elections said that the issue of alleged fraud in the 2004 presidential election is not yet closed as documents on the alleged cheating were shown at a Senate hearing. A former...
A professor of law at the University of the Philippines said that Justice Secretary Raul Gonzales should investigate the taped conversation allegedly involving President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo and an official of the Commission on Elections (Comelec). This, said...
Technical glitches which hounded the Precinct Count Optical Scan (PCOS) machines in tests that were administered to these are part of a long series of problems that have occurred in the process of holding the first-ever automated elections in the country. By itself, but especially when seen together with the other problems that have occurred earlier, this failure seriously undermines the credibility of the May 10 elections.
The following is a chronology of events on the allegedly wiretapped conversations between President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo and former Election Commissioner Virgilio Garcillano. The author presented this at the forum titled “Gloriagate Tapes: What the Public Should...
The elections are a period when these conflicting forces play out an act in a long-running drama. For those who control power, each election is crucial. They cannot afford to lose. They can, in another sense, afford to win through “guns, goons, gold and Garci.” BY...
The reports of massive fraud are staring the Commission on Elections (Comelec) in the face and Comelec Chair Benjamin Abalos, Sr. and Commissioner Rene Sarmiento still refuse to conduct a thorough investigation and act swiftly to prevent further damage. And they...
Whatever be the final judgment on Cardinal Sin’s controversial intervention in the political arena, the fact is the bishops cannot isolate themselves from what is going on and cannot continue to remain silent, wittingly or unwittingly serving as props to a regime...
From the looks of it, it seems that former Agriculture Undersecretary Jocelyn “Joc Joc” Bolante is doing a Garci and a Neri, thus, adding the fertilizer scam to the list of issues that would hound the Arroyo government beyond 2010. BY BENJIE OLIVEROS ANALYSIS...
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