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Violent start to Philippines poll
« on: May 9^th, 2004, 9:25pm »

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Sunday, May 9, 2004 Posted: 7:41 PM EDT (2341 GMT)

MANILA, Philippines (AP) -- A deadly grenade attack and reports of abductions, a fire and election law violations have ushered in presidential, congressional and local polling in the Philippines.

Polls opened at 7 a.m. local time Monday (2300 GMT Sunday) in contests dominated by the showdown between President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo and her main challenger, action film star Fernando Poe Jr.

Official results are not expected for several weeks because ballots must be counted by hand.

Nearly 230,000 police and troops were deployed to secure polling precincts and guard against violence or terrorist attacks in a country with a history of election violence and raging Marxist and Muslim insurgencies.

Unidentified men hurled a grenade in front of the campaign headquarters of a mayoralty candidate late Sunday, killing two people and wounding another in suburban Caloocan in metropolitan Manila, said police director Marcelino Franco.

No suspects were arrested, Franco said. There were no immediate details available about who had been killed.

Election officials also reported an explosion that set off a fire that gutted portions of a building and destroyed election documents in the central town of Taft in Eastern Samar province.

Elections director Ferdinand Rafanan said tens of thousands of election campaign documents loaded in two vans were confiscated by police in the region. Police were also checking reports of vote-buying in one area, he said.

A national police spokesman, Chief Supt. Joel Goltiao, said authorities were looking into two reports of abductions of followers of local candidates, including a supporter of a mayoralty candidate in Rodriguez town in Rizal, east of Manila.

Arroyo, Poe and three longshot presidential contenders have called on Filipinos to be vigilant against fraud and violence.

Meanwhile, al Qaeda-linked terrorists are recruiting Muslim converts in the Philippines through a network of charities, according to security officials and an intelligence report obtained by The Associated Press.

One of the charities was founded by Mohammad Jamal Khalifa, brother-in-law of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden. (Full story)

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Re: Violent start to Philippines poll
« Reply #1 on: May 14^th, 2004, 2:12am »

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I hope you and yours are safe Paulo, take care.

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Re: Violent start to Philippines poll
« Reply #2 on: May 14^th, 2004, 2:47am »

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thanks kelby... well.. today.. the country is quiet.. no chaos or anything... the country is safe again....

counting of votes (manual) is still on-going probably until the next week... the only thing that troubles people is about the losing aspirants specially in the presidential race.. and some local mayoral and governatorial levels.... it has been common here every election times that the losers shout of being cheated.... Grin

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« Reply #3 on: May 14^th, 2004, 2:47am »

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Yes, Pau, please stay safe!

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« Reply #4 on: May 17^th, 2004, 1:41pm »

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Thats always the case of elections here, a lot of sour losers...

Hey what about me BTW! No "be safe sweetmisery"... hmph!

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« Reply #5 on: May 17^th, 2004, 8:43pm »

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My apologies, and safe wishes to all our members in the Philipines, I did not mean to exclude any of you.

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Re: Violent start to Philippines poll
« Reply #6 on: May 18^th, 2004, 12:08am »

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sweet is getting jealous... heheheh :laff:

well..to update, its been 8 days after the election and the Commission of Elections has only counted 32% of all of the ballots... pretty slow from the previous years...

at least one of the presidentiables have already conceded... the country's situation now is safe and quietand everybody is just awaiting for the outcome of the election...

leading is the Gloria Arroyo our incumbent president....

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« Reply #7 on: May 18^th, 2004, 11:35am »

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oops! Yes all my best to everyone!

Its amazing at how long that is taking Pau, what a pain...so will there be more violence one the president is officially elected or is the worst over?

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« Reply #8 on: May 18^th, 2004, 3:34pm »

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The worst is over hopefully... but those who are trailing are complaining a lot. There is this pastor who ran for Pres., I think he is last, and said that losing is ok for him, but he cant have a winner out of cheating, so they will protest on that... Well it never ends, it goes full circle...

And dont worry guys, especially Rhune, I didnt feel unwanted above. I know you love me!

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« Reply #9 on: May 19^th, 2004, 9:25pm »

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kelby... yeah... its taking very long... which arises a lot of accusations of cheating specially now that canvassing is on-going.. it has happened in the past where canvassed counts are changed... (as claimed by the losers)

well... i think the worst is over but I still see some comotion to happen once the official proclamation is given... I expect a big protest rally again along Ayala Ave here in Makati City.... but for the rest of the country.. it would generally be calm... Grin

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« Reply #10 on: May 19^th, 2004, 9:39pm »

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Poe claims victory;
Malacańang sneers
Posted: 0:11 AM (Manila Time) | May 20, 2004
By Julie S. Alipala and Rosa-May V. de Guzman
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http://www.inq7.net/nat/2004/may/20/nat_1-1.htm
'Self-proclamation'

ZAMBOANGA CITY -- Fernando Poe Jr. Wednesday claimed victory in the May 10 presidential election and said Malacańang was manipulating the figures to make it appear that President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo was winning.

"Panalo tayo (We won)," Poe said in a press conference at around 9 a.m. at the Garden Orchid Hotel in this city. He said he was leading by a wide margin in Mindanao but that his lead was not being projected in the media and in the quick count of the National Citizens' Movement for Free Elections (Namfrel).

"We won in this election and they know that. You know what they have been doing," he told reporters.

But in Malacańang, Ms Macapagal's spokesperson Ignacio Bunye said Poe should not be ridiculous.

Bunye aired the reminder that only the Commission on Elections could proclaim electoral winners. The Senate and the House of Representatives serve as the board of canvassers for the presidential and vice presidential election and proclaim the winners.

Poe and a number of officials of the Koalisyon ng Nagkakaisang Pilipino (KNP/Coalition of United Filipinos) were welcomed by their local party mates as well as those from the provinces of Sulu, Basilan and Tawi-Tawi.

It was during his meeting with local KNP members that Poe was told he was leading in the canvass.

Renato Magbutay, assistant regional election director for Basilan, Sulu and Tawi-Tawi, confirmed that the actor was leading by a wide margin in the three provinces.

South Cotabato Representative Lualhati Antonino said the administration wanted to rig the election results in vote-rich Mindanao. "That's why we are going around Mindanao," she said.

"Only the Comelec can officially proclaim a winning candidate, so anybody who does so, does so at his own risk," Bunye said. "But definitely, any proclamation, private or otherwise, will not count unless this is the proclamation of the Comelec."

Bunye, a lawyer, also said the Comelec could motu propio (on its own) act on Poe's "self-proclamation," and that it should be the lookout of the actor's lawyers to counsel their candidate on his actions.

"I won't give my legal advice for free," he said.

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In Zamboanga, Poe accused Malacańang of sowing disinformation about the alleged opposition-backed destabilization plot.

He said even the supposed arrest order for Colonel Jose Gamus of the 9th Infantry Brigade was a stage play.

"It's the other way around," he said, adding in Filipino that his political rivals were the ones responsible for the "anomalies" and the "destabilization."

Poe said he and other opposition candidates had come to Mindanao to prevent fraud in favor of Ms Macapagal, and not to incite unrest.

Makati Mayor Jejomar Binay, overall campaign manager of the KNP, said the situation in the country today resembled that in the martial law years.

Binay said the then strongman Ferdinand Marcos also used the military to ensure his and his allies' victory during elections.

But Lieutenant General Roy Kyamko, chief of the Armed Forces' Southern Command, said the military had always observed the sanctity of the electoral process.

Kyamko said the military had only provided security to ensure that the elections would be violence-free

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« Reply #11 on: May 25^th, 2004, 9:04pm »

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Personally, I don't like either presidentiables (Pres. Arroyo and Poe). Angry

Too bad my candidate didn't win. Cry

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Re: Violent start to Philippines poll
« Reply #12 on: Jun 2^nd, 2004, 3:38am »

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same here.... i voted for Lacson..

and I hope the next president would be proclaimed before june30.... the Congress is taking toooooo long to do this....

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« Reply #13 on: Jun 5^th, 2004, 12:52pm »

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Yes!

I think they all deserved the word SHUT UP!!!

BTW, are you from Cavite (where Lacson 'rules')?

I voted for Roco. And he didn't win. Cry

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« Reply #14 on: Jun 6^th, 2004, 9:38pm »

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nope.. I'm from Manila... especifically Caloocan... I wanted Lacson because the Philippines has peace but lack order... freedom of anything is too much... we had no limitations... we had no discipline... Grin

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