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Fom ABS-CBN news:

No campaign poster was allowed inside the Philippine Military Academy in Fort del Pilar in Baguio City Saturday and politicians adopted by different PMA class were not around during its alumni homecoming but the event still did not escape politics.

ABS-CBN News reported that guest speaker and re-electionist Senate President Manuel Villar took the occasion to hit the Arroyo administration in its alleged railroading of Charter change.

In his speech, Villar scored allies of President Arroyo for their alleged efforts to hastily amend the 1987 Constitution without going through the proper procedures.

by JB Baylon
Malaya

Yesterday I read a news report that said that Namfrel and the CBCP were teaming up to do another quick-count. Immediately, I was seized by a feeling of disbelief, if not disgust. Namfrel, doing another quick count?

Does that mean that people still trust Namfrel?

Frankly, I’ve lost whatever respect I have had left of Namfrel as an independent, quick-count organization. The last straw was Namfrel chair Joe Concepcion insisting that there was no cheating in the 2004 elections or, as I suspect he will say now, no cheating on a scale massive enough to bring into question the over-all results. This, despite the taped voices that anyone trying to avoid a lawsuit would say “sounds like” the voices of the incumbent president and a non-disgraced elections commissioner, and despite the very obvious cover-up that started with the now-infamous “I have two discs” performance of Ignacio Bunye (who, in that one fell swoop damaged his credibility beyond the after-life).

Hindi ito joke. Ito ay tunay na pangyayari:

Sa Shoptalk noong Lunes:

Tinanong ni Pia Hontiveros si Jamalul Kiram III, kandidato ng administrasyon para senador kung paano siya nasali. Sabi niya, “I volunteered.”

Tinanong ni Pia, paano at kailan. Hindi na ngayon malaman ni Kiram kung ano ang sagot. Sabi niya, “I did not volunteer.”

Sabi ni Pia, kasasabi lang ninyo na nag-volunteer kayo. Sabi ni Kiram na parang ina-antok, “Okay I said I did, but I’m taking it back.

Despite obvious indications that Joselito Pepito Cayetano is a nuisance candidate out to ruin all “Cayetano” votes for Alan Peter Cayetano, Comelec Chairman Benjamin Abalos said they cannot disqualify the former because he was sponsored by a Comelec-registered party, Kilusan ng Bagong Lipunan.

Alan didn’t mince words and attributed to Mike Arroyo the dirty tricks.

The Malacañang connection is bolstered by the statement by presidential legal counsel Sergio Apostol that between Joselito and Alan, it could even be Alan who is a nuisance candidate because Joselito filed ahead of Alan.

Last Monday Navy Lt (s.g) Antonio Trillanes asked permission from the Makati Regional Trial Court to be allowed to grant media interviews. The DOJ is opposing it. Click here.

Meanwhile,the Magdalo Group has launched an online campaign for Trillanes in defiance of an earlier warning by the military leadership against engaging in partisan political activity.

Click to www.magdaloparasapagbabago.blogspot.com

Press Secretary Bunye’s line was Gloria Arroyo will be ‘concentrating on governance’ so she won’t be joining the administration’s senatorial candidates in their campaign. Of course, that’s their ploy to deflect the real issue in this election which is Gloria Arroyo. Even her senatorial candidates are ashamed of her.

Here’s Malaya’s story:

TEAM Unity senatorial candidates have asked President Arroyo to distance herself from their campaign sorties so as not to doom their chances of winning, Malacañang sources said yesterday.

The sources said former presidential chief of staff Michael Defensor, the only former Cabinet member running in the administration senatorial ticket, was tapped as messenger by his fellow candidate.