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Lim, Querubin fail to stir up Trillanes magic in 2007 |
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Tuesday, 25 May 2010 14:20 |
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Lim, Querubin fail to stir up Trillanes magic in 2007
By Jocelyn Uy
Philippine Daily Inquirer
First Posted 00:28:00 05/17/2010
Filed Under: Eleksyon 2010, Military, Politics
MANILA, Philippines -- Jailed military officers, Gen. Danilo Lim and Col. Ariel Querubin, failed to copy the historic feat of former Navy Lt. Antonio Trillanes IV in the 2007 senatorial elections because they were not "pogi" enough and they did not carry surnames long known in Philippine politics, said analysts.
Political analyst Ramon Casiple said the fight in the senatorial race this year was reduced to name recall as the nation focused more on who was going to succeed controversial President Macapagal-Arroyo after nine years in power.
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Press Conference on Bantay Eleksyon 2010 Fourth Progress Report |
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Monday, 19 April 2010 22:42 |
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PRESS RELEASE
Bantay Eleksyon 2010
Fourth Progress Report
April 14, 2010
The People’s Coalition to Monitor the Elections or Bantay Eleksyon (BE) is a coalition of electoral stakeholders formed by the Consortium for Electoral Reforms (CER) which is a national coalition of forty seven (47) electoral reform organizations. Bantay Eleksyon 2010 seeks to monitor the entire election process under a domestic observation mission framework, to assess the conduct of the election based on the international criteria of a fair and free election. It works under the principles of transparency and impartiality.
BE 2010’s fourth public report was released through a Press Conference on April 14, 2010 at the Ilustrado Restaurant, Intramuros, Manila. The event was well attended by media and election stakeholders. The Fourth Progress Report focused on the following: Problem Areas in Automated Election System (AES) Implementation, Conduct of National and local Election Campaign, COMELEC and Supreme Court Decisions, Updates on the Party List, Voters’ List, Civil Society Organizations, Election Violence, and Field Reports from the Regions. The report also included Bantay Eleksyon’s recommendations and conclusions with regard the aforementioned areas.
At the Press Conference, the questions raised mostly pertained to two issues: speed vs. credibility of the Automated Elections, and of how effective the COMELEC is in doing its job to ensure the credibility of the elections and gain the public’s trust.
CER and Bantay Eleksyon Chair Ramon Casiple gave the COMELEC a rating of 5 points from a scale of 1 to 10, emphasizing that it is easier for the rating to go down than to rise at the rate COMELEC is managing the whole electoral process.
Andie Lasala, National Coordinator of Bantay Eleksyon 2010 and Becky Malay, Secretary-General of the Consortium for Electoral Reforms joined Casiple as speakers.
PRESS RELEASE
April 14, 2010
 The People’s Coalition to Monitor the Elections or Bantay Eleksyon (BE) is a coalition of electoral stakeholders formed by the Consortium for Electoral Reforms (CER) which is a national coalition of forty seven (47) electoral reform organizations. Bantay Eleksyon 2010 seeks to monitor the entire election process under a domestic observation mission framework, to assess the conduct of the election based on the international criteria of a fair and free election. It works under the principles of transparency and impartiality.
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Of Ribbons and Baller IDs, Of Lanterns and Buses |
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Friday, 16 April 2010 15:04 |
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Of Ribbons and Baller IDs, Of Lanterns and Buses
By: Consortium on Electoral Reforms
One character of the 2010 Presidential campaign is the battle of colors where candidates effectively appropriated for their identity a particular color. Yellow for Benigno Simeon “Noynoy “Aquino, orange for Manuel “Manny” Villar,, orange & blue for Joseph “Erap” Estrada, and green for Gilbert “Gibo” Teodoro.
For this campaign season, nobody could simply ignore the colors proliferating on the roads. There is apparently strong color identification to candidates. The usual “vote for” slogans in posters may be taken aside because the color itself speaks for the candidate.
It started as yellow ribbons to commemorate the loss of the country’s democracy icon, Cory Aquino, however, as the campaign started, yellow ribbons remained to be sighted. It could initially be accounted as another yellow ribbon tied on an “old oak tree” but as the campaign came to its full swing, many more ribbons got tied, particularly the orange and green followed suit.
However, no ribbons were sighted for ERAP, most probably to avoid confusion with his opponent Villar. It can be recalled that ERAP used orange when he campaigned in 1998.
The new fad also is the Baller ID, commonly used by the youth, can now be seen worn by people from all walks of life, carrying the color of their candidate with the candidate’s name or logo on it.
Yet two more stand innovations are the use of lanterns and buses as propagandas materials. Using the yellow color, the Noynoy camp came up with loo ribbons while Villar came up with orange colored check. Some enterprising Filipinos made bigger lantern version complete with bulbs which can be lighted at night.
Another innovation is the placement of political ads on Public Utility Buses. Suddenly buses became a practical mobile campaigner for the candidates despite its cost ranging from P5000-P15, 000 per month per bus unit. For the four candidates monitored a total of nine (9) bus lines have political ads of 3 presidential candidates. Comelec has no existing rules on this until now.
Obviously the new campaign trends in this presidential election illustrate how colorful this contest can get, it is Philippine politics after all.
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By: Consortium on Electoral Reforms
One character of the 2010 Presidential campaign is the battle of colors where candidates effectively appropriated for their identity a particular color. Yellow for Benigno Simeon “Noynoy “Aquino, orange for Manuel “Manny” Villar,, orange & blue for Joseph “Erap” Estrada, and green for Gilbert “Gibo” Teodoro.
For this campaign season, nobody could simply ignore the colors proliferating on the roads. There is apparently strong color identification to candidates. The usual “vote for” slogans in posters may be taken aside because the color itself speaks for the candidate.
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Villar Dominates the Ground War |
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Thursday, 15 April 2010 19:03 |
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By: Consortium for Electoral Reforms
Similar to the air war, Presidential Candidate Manny Villar ranks 1st in campaign propaganda expenditures among four candidates monitored on the ground level. As the campaign for national candidates kicked off on February 9, 2010 until March 29, 2010, the Pera’t Pulitika-Consortium on Electoral Reforms field data shows that Villar has spent an amount of P 889,378.40 in a monitoring conducted in 10 key cities around the country. He was followed by Noynoy Aquino with P 715,258.50, third is Gibo Teodoro with P 669,240.20 and fourth is Erap Estrada with only P 97,894.90.
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PUBLIC REPORT Vote for Peace 2010 |
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Thursday, 15 April 2010 14:47 |
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Timog Avenue Corner Tomas Morato Avenue
Quezon City
Vote for Peace 2010 (or Vote Peace) is a non-partisan nationwide initiative with a mission to create a political environment conducive to the conduct of a free, fair and peaceful conduct of the May 10, 2010 National and Local Elections. Vote Peace 2010 aims to: 1) effectively monitor incidents of election violence during the election period; 2) minimize election conflict and incidents of election violence; 3) provide appropriate political response to acts or incidents of election violence; and 4) exact political costs to perpetrators of election violence.
Vote Peace is a project of the Consortium on Electoral Reform (CER) and has Vote Peace Response Teams (VPRTs) in selected regions and provinces across the country, especially where election hot spot areas are located. Vote Peace has established coordinative if not working relations with various election stakeholders, especially with the Bantay-Eleksyon Monitors in the context of monitoring ERVIs. The focused areas of Vote Peace are the provinces of Abra, Nueva Ecija, Masbate, Samar Island, Maguindanao, Lanao del Norte, Lanao del Sur, Basilan and Sulu. It is also closely watching developments in Davao City, Compostela Valley, Batangas, Quezon, Isabela and Sultan Kudarat.
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Isang Tanong kay Gibo by Mon Casiple
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