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“Duterte has brought about the conditions favorable for the rise of the legal mass protest movement as well as of the more potent armed revolutionary mass movement.” By MARYA SALAMAT Bulatlat.com MANILA – The Commission on Elections (Comelec) has pronounced the elections a “success” even as it still faces a growing outcry for explanations and…

Public school teachers under Alliance of Concerned Teachers give Comelec a failing grade for the problematic elections. (Photo by Anne Marxze D. Umil/Bulatlat) “Not only did they have to be resourceful in troubleshooting the machines and in exhausting all possible means to ensure that the voting process continues immediately, but they also had to endure…

The partial and unofficial results in senatorial votes have yielded sentiments that Filipino voters are “bobotante,” a portmanteau of idiot and voter. The dismay in unofficial elections results has even led to a spike in Google Trends of Filipinos searching for the term “migrate”. However, pinning the blame on poor Filipino voters is a lazy…

Members of people’s organizations stage a protest in front of Comelec a day after the elections. (Photo by Kenneth Guda/ Pinoy Weekly) By VINZ SIMON* Bulatlat.com A treachery of the grandest order now unfolds as the election precincts closed yesterday – the Comelec’s transparency server has repeatedly held up and a dubious pattern has emerged…