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==Solons oppose bid to void ARMM voters' list== | |||
*Source: http://www.philstar.com/nation/article.aspx?publicationsubcategoryid=200&articleid=803228 | |||
*Thursday, May 3, 2012 | |||
:by John Unson | |||
COTABATO CITY, Philippines - Maguindanao's two congressional representatives are opposed to the general nullification of the list of voters in the province as petitioned by other local officials and groups. | |||
Commission on Elections Commissioner Rene Sarmiento, in an interview yesterday with Catholic station dxMS here, said the poll body is yet to decide on the petitions through an en banc session. | |||
Sarmiento, however, did not reveal who the petitioners were. | |||
Sources from the league of mayors in the province said that the staunchest advocate of the nullification of voters in the region is Maguindanao Gov. Esmael Mangudadatu, who is seeking a re-election in next year’s local elections. | |||
Many mayors in Maguindanao already have plans of joining the administration’s Liberal Party, whose provincial chapter chairman in the province is Sultan Kudarat Mayor Tucao Mastura. | |||
Mangudadatu aspired for governor of Maguindanao during the 2010 elections under the banner of Lakas-Christian, Muslim Democrats. | |||
Representatives Sandra Sema and Simeon Datumanong, of the first and second congressional districts in Maguindanao, respectively, have separately expressed strong opposition to any invalidation of the voters list in the 36 towns in the province. | |||
“Why single out Maguindanao if the basis in seeking the nullification of the voters' list in the province were cases of electoral fraud during the previous elections? This is so unfair,” Sema said. | |||
Sema said she would write Comelec Chairman Sixtro Brillantes an official letter, manifesting her opposition to the petition. | |||
“If we allow this to happen, it’s like putting all the blame on Maguindanao for all previous election irregularities in the autonomous region,” Sema pointed out. | |||
Datumanong, a lawyer, said there are so many questions on the petition for the annulment of the voters' list in the province. | |||
“These questions have to be answered first. If there were cases of cheating during the past elections, it was not a monopoly by Maguindanao,” Datumanong said. | |||
Any annulment of the voters' list in Maguindanao would have to be preceded by extensive public consultations first, according to Datumanong. | |||
“It would be a serious transgression of the rights of all legitimate, qualified voters in the province,” Datumanong said. “We were not consulted about this petition to annul the voters list in Maguindanao.” | |||
Lawyer Rey Sumalipao, elections director in the autonomous region, said the poll body has found more than 100,000 multiple registrants in the ARMM’s five provinces. | |||
Sumalipao, however clarified that Lanao del Sur, and not Maguindanao, has the highest number of flying voters. | |||
Suprisingly, no one from Lanao del Sur asked for the annulment of the voters' list in all of the more than 40 towns in the province. | |||
“Lanao del Sur has more multiple registrants, but why focus only on Maguindanao. Why invalidate the area’s voters list?" Datumanong asked. | |||
Sumalipao said that as of April this year, ARMM already has 1.7 million registered voters. | |||
“It may still even increase because of the continuing registration of voters using the automated registration system,” he said.m | |||
==SPES grantees participate in Labor Day celebration== | ==SPES grantees participate in Labor Day celebration== | ||
*Source: http://site.tacurong.gov.ph/2012/05/spes-grantees-participate-in-labor-day_01.html | *Source: http://site.tacurong.gov.ph/2012/05/spes-grantees-participate-in-labor-day_01.html | ||
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DOLE Assistant Regional Director for Region XII, Yahya A. Senti, delivered the Labor Day message and said that he hopes the SPES scholars would become good leaders of the community and the country in the future. Senti also hyped the event by doing a song number and reaching out to the SPES grantees himself. | DOLE Assistant Regional Director for Region XII, Yahya A. Senti, delivered the Labor Day message and said that he hopes the SPES scholars would become good leaders of the community and the country in the future. Senti also hyped the event by doing a song number and reaching out to the SPES grantees himself. | ||
SPES Day was made possible through Department of Labor and Employment together with the Public Employment Service Offices in the Province of Sultan Kudarat. | SPES Day was made possible through Department of Labor and Employment together with the Public Employment Service Offices in the Province of Sultan Kudarat. | ||
==MILF leader insists 'independence, full autonomy== | ==MILF leader insists 'independence, full autonomy== | ||