RP Elections 2010

The action star turned president. The nocturnal president. The poster boy of corruption. The academically challenged president.
Joseph Estrada, “Erap” to his millions of tangahanga, suffered miserably in the past. He has been scraped off his office, cutting short his six-year Presidential into two and a half. He has been jailed and convicted. But he [...]

When President Obama decided to release what is touted as the Torture Memos, he was faced with a dilemma: to hold or not to hold those who authorized the memos accountable.
There are those who argue that President Obama should, because it’s an affront to the basic law of the land, the Constitution. On the other [...]

In her term as president of the Philippine Republic, Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo has had quite a few run-ins with infamy — the “Hello, Garci” brouhaha, corruption cases (that have not been resolved thus far), and now the Maguindanao massacre, which will remain in history as a blight of shame on our nation. Only one of these [...]

Possibly unprecedented in Philippine politics, the Second Division of the Commission on Elections (Comelec) has opened a can of worms when it junked last 11 November the petition of Filipino LGBT organization Ang Ladlad in its bid to field congressional candidates for the 2010 general elections under the party-list system. The accreditation rejection, as promulgated [...]

[Media Release]
The National Citizens’ Movement for Free Elections (NAMFREL) strongly condemns the brutal politically-motivated killings in Maguindanao of political supporters and journalists.
We call upon President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo to take a firm and decisive action immediately to go after the perpetrators of this heinous crime, and for the government to consider this and other recent tragedies [...]

This has reference to the news item that “MARCOS URGES ABOLITION OF NAMFREL.” In said item, Ilocos Norte Representative Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos, Jr. was quoted as having said: “The country was deeply divided because of allegations of fraud during the 2004 and 2007 elections and Namfrel has done nothing about it. I think it’s about [...]

Today, as the family of Corazon C. Aquino bury their matriarch, the Filipino nation mourns the loss of the country’s symbol of People Power, the restorer and defender of democracy.
As President of the Republic, Cory was far from perfect. But, her actions and decisions were always guided by hard and fast principles. It was ever [...]

I don’t mind having these presidential debates. In fact, I find it somehow refreshing to see the presidentiables no longer devoting much of their energies to practicing their jingles and dance steps; to see them participating in serious talks although one of them—you know who is he—would prefer cracking jokes to talking serious stuff.
But what [...]