By Patricia B. Mirasol, Reporter Facebook, the Meta-owned social media platform, removed five million pieces of content on Facebook and Instagram in the four months leading up to the Philippine national elections and the week following (Jan. 9–May 16). They were all in violation of Facebook’s violence and incitement policies, according to Meta in an […]
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Editorial: Register to vote in Dec. 2022
The voter turnout during the May 2022 elections was unprecedented.Yet, despite the Commission on Elections (Comelec) extending in October 2021 the registration of new voters and the activation of disenfranchised voters who skipped two consecutive elections, many citizens were still unable to register and activate their voting status to be able to participate in the […]
Garcia gets more votes in 2022 general elections than in 2019 midterm polls
CEBU Gov. Gwendolyn Garcia exceeded the votes she received in the 2019 midterm elections after she got more than 500,000 votes in this year’s general election.The four-time governor was proclaimed winner on Tuesday, May 10, a day after the elections, after securing a historic 80.80 percent of the votes or 1,478,436 votes, beating former tourism […]
VM-elect Garcia gets highest votes in Cebu City poll history
VICE Mayor-elect Raymond Alvin Garcia has garnered the most number of votes not only among all candidates in Cebu City who won in the May 9, 2022 elections but also among all candidates who ever ran in the local polls.This was confirmed by lawyer Edwin Cadungog, chairperson of the Cebu City Board of Canvassers (BOC), […]
EOC: Covid case surge unlikely after elections
A CITY Hall official is confident that cases of coronavirus disease (Covid-19) in Cebu City will remain low after the May 9, 2022 elections.Councilor Joel Garganera, deputy chief implementer of the city’s Emergency Operations Center (EOC), said Monday, May 2, that the possibility of another surge after the elections is remote.Garganera added that more than […]
Comelec Cebu: Polling precincts to close at 7 p.m. on May 9
VOTERS are reminded that the local and national elections will close by 7 p.m. on Monday, May 9, 2022.Jerome Brillantes, acting elections supervisor of the Commission on Elections (Comelec) Cebu Provincial Office, told SunStar Cebu that the elections will start at 6 a.m. and will close at 7 p.m. on the same day.Voters are advised […]
As living costs surge, climate change takes a backseat in elections
KUALA LUMPUR/MANILA/RIO DE JANEIRO — In the seaside town of Palo in the central Philippines, George Christopher Daga has watched torrential rain pour for days during what is supposed to be a hot and dry April — just one of the unusual weather patterns he has faced in recent years. His home province of Leyte, […]
Editorial: One Cebu disunited?
Disunity is the word that’s apt to describe the current situation at One Cebu, the dominant administration party in the province as siblings Gov. Gwendolyn Garcia and Deputy Speaker Pablo John “PJ” Garcia (Cebu, 3rd) are supporting different presidential candidates in the May 9, 2022 polls.Governor Garcia and the rest of One Cebu support dictator’s […]
Sorties begin in Cebu for elections 2022
Here are highlights of the first day of the campaign period for local candidates in Cebu.
Election watchdog seeks shortlist for Comelec vacancies
THE NATIONAL Citizens’ Movement for Free Elections (Namfrel) has asked President Rodrigo R. Duterte to divulge his shortlist of candidates for appointment to the Commission of Elections (Comelec). In a statement on Monday, the election watchdog cited the need for a transparent and clean appointment process for the three vacant positions at the election body […]
CPPO checking watchlist areas from past elections
THE Cebu Police Provincial Office (CPPO) is now checking on the list of municipalities in the province where there was political violence during the 2019 midterm elections, which w…
Malilong: Will it help the son?
THEY tried it before and it failed. Now, they’re trying it again.When Cory Aquino challenged the overstaying President Marcos in the snap elections that he grudgingly called in 19…
Comelec gun ban to start on Jan. 9
THE Cebu City police are ready to enforce a Commission on Elections (Comelec) gun ban and will put up checkpoints during the start of the election period on Monday, Jan. 9, 2022.Th…
Comelec to revise guidelines on voting procedures after mock elections outcome
THE COMMISSION on Elections (Comelec) will revise its voting procedures for the May 2022 polls to address issues that were observed during the mock elections held Wednesday in several areas across the country. Among the problems encountered involved technical matters relating to ballots to vote counting machines as well as ensuring the observance of health […]
Espinoza: Christmas, elections and Omicron
Our Christmas celebration this year will never be the same as it used to be before this deadly new coronavirus (Covid-19) arrived on our shores. The virus was first detected in Wuhan, China in December 2019. For almost two years, the world has mostly been at a standstill. The mighty countries and developing nations are […]
Bill postponing youth elections filed
A congressman has filed a bill seeking to postpone the village and youth elections to 2024 amid a coronavirus pandemic. Davao Oriental Rep. Joel Mayo Z. Almario filed House Bill 10425, which will cancel the local elections set for Dec. 5. “The country cannot afford to have all new leaders in 2022 as doing so […]
Duterte signs law postponing BARMM elections
Philippine President Rodrigo R. Duterte has officially postponed the first regular elections in the Bangsamoro region, according to the presidential palace. He signed Republic Act (RA) No. 11593 which moves the date of the parliamentary and regional elections of the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao to May 2025, synchronized with the next mid-term elections. […]
Bimbo Fernandez endorsed by NGOs for city mayor
NON-GOVERNMENT organizations have endorsed the candidacy of former Cebu City administrator Francisco “Bimbo” Fernandez to run for city mayor in the 2022 national and local elections. Members of the Alliance of Urban Poor (UP-ALL) Cebu and the sectors of housing tenure, women, youth, farmers and other NGOs made the endorsement during a press conference on […]
Editorial: Nuisance
In the past, there were bewildering personalities who attempted to run for the presidency, the highest elective post in the country. Some of these individuals who filed their certificates of candidacy include an “intergalactic space ambassador” who claimed he was persuaded to run by aliens who talked to him via their Facebook group and promised […]
Voter Registration
PEOPLE line up inside the Quezon City Science High School on Sept. 20 as they await their turn to register at a Commission on Elections (Comelec) office nearby. Comelec has said that there will be no extension to the Sept. 30 deadline for registration nationwide. The filing of certificates of candidacy starts Oct. 1.