![[The Slingshot] International observers speak cynically of our elections](https://pinoyabrod.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/International-observers-speak-cynically-of-our-elections-768x432.webp)
May 23, 2022 5:30 PM PHT Antonio J. Montalvan II ‘The results of the election are a worst-case scenario for the Filipino people and for the international community,’ writes one observer What right have they to interfere with our elections? Why insult me? – I could almost hear Rodrigo Duterte cuss with usual narcissistic disdain on international…
(Reposting this Inquirer.Net news article on Marcos and Smartmatic in 2018 – Editors) By: Gabriel Pabico Lalu – Reporter / @GabrielLaluINQINQUIRER.net / 01:36 PM August 24, 2018 Former Senator Bongbong Marcos has asked the government to adopt a “hybrid” system for the upcoming elections, after he alleged that Smartmatic, which automated Philippine elections, had allowed…
(So you may remember, this was published 17 years ago, July 4, 2004, The Sydney Morning Herald)) A former Sydney swimwear model is at the centre of renewed attempts to locate millions of dollars sent out of the Philippines by former dictator Ferdinand Marcos. Evelin Hegyesi, who modelled mink bikinis in the 1970s and once…
ABS-CBN News Posted at May 18 2022 The United States now tops the global ranking of countries complicit in helping people hide their wealth, a pressure group said Tuesday and accused the world’s leading nations of blocking progress on reducing financial secrecy. Ahead of a meeting of G7 finance ministers in Germany Wednesday, the Tax…
Kathleen A. Llemit – Philstar.com, May 17, 2022 | MANILA, Philippines — Actor Robin Padilla’s apparent win at his very first Senate bid was not an overnight success. It took years in the making by working “quietly” with civil groups, earning nods “from Forbes Park in Makati to Forbes in Sampaloc.” Co-founder and chief reputation…
Raoul Manuel will sit in the next Congress as representative of Kabataan Partylist By Bea Zaragosa, ABS-CBN News Posted at Jun 18 2015| Updated as of Jun 19 2015 ILOILO CITY – Raoul Danniel A. Manuel, University of the Philippines (UP) Visayas’ first summa cum laude graduate, is not a guy who spends all his…
May 17, 2022, Lian Buan The Supreme Court is on a writing break and is set to resume only in June when Congress is presumably already done with canvass. But time is not an issue, says one lawyer. MANILA, Philippines – The legal fight has officially reached the last resort, the Supreme Court, as civic…
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May 16, 2022, Kyle Parada ‘As long as poverty is rampant and government is unable to provide every Filipino with basic services, vote-buying, whether explicit or implicit, will persist throughout every election’ May 9, 2022 marked what was, perhaps, the most consequential Philippine election since 1986. The Marcoses – the world’s poster children for corruption,…