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EDGEDAVAO
VOL. 6 ISSUE 43 • WEDNESDAY, MAY 15, 2013
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AILING AIMEE. Central 911 paramedics attend to Board of Canvassers chair lawyer Aimee Ampoloquio after she felt dizzy during yesterday afternoon’s election canvassing at the Sangguniang Panlungsod along San Pedro Street, Davao City. Also checking on her are BOC members Atty. Edipolo Sarabia (back to the camera) and Atty. Ma. Teresa Pescadero (extreme right). Lower photo, a visibly pale Ampoloquio decided to cut the canvassing last night when she could no longer bear the stress. Lean Daval Jr.
Canvass halted Hypertension forces Ampoloquio to call it a day By Neil Bravo with EJ Fernandez
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avao city’s official election canvassing went to a halt for the second straight day and for a bizarre reason--hypertension.
City Board of Canvassers chair aimee Ferolin-ampoloquio interrupted the proceedings of the slow-moving official canvass of the May 13 local elections twice yesterday at the Sangguniang Panlungsod when she complained of numbness and nausea. ampoloquio, in the center of a controversy last week for a tirade directed against some members of the board of election inspectors (BEIs), abruptly paused while directing BEI member Mercedes Delalamon of Catalunan Grande National High
School’s precinct no. 24020292 to transmit manually the election returns in the said precinct at around 4:11 p.m. ampoloquio turned her back from the floor and appeared dizzy. Her fellow members of the CBoC atty. Edipolo Sarabia and atty. Ma.Teresa Pescadera quickly responded and asked paramedics t o check her condition. “Her BP shot up to 1 4 0 / 9 0 ,” said Sarabia who was seated beside ampoloquio.
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Proclamation set at 9 a.m. today
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s of 9:30 p.m. last night, the City Board of Canvassers has finally set the derailed proclamation today at 9:00 a.m. at the Sangguniang Panlungsod session hall. CBoC chairperson aimee Ferolin amploquio called off the proceedings last night at 9:15 p.m. “Please understand, I have to continue with the proclamation tomorrow. I have to rest for tonight, I already felt dizzy,” she said. “We will do the proclamation tomorrow because we have to print the official tally,” ampoloquio said before she called it a day. ampoloquio left the hall in a huff to a waiting pick-up vehicle eluding reporters who pursued her for interview. Set to be proclaimed today are Congressional winners Karlo Nograles of the first district, Mylene Garcia of the second district and Isidro Ungab of the third district—all reelectionists. also to be proclaimed are the unopposed father-son tandem of Mayor-elect Rodrigo Duterte and vice Mayor-elect Paolo Duterte. The CBoC resumed its session shortly before 8:00 p.m. last night after ampoloquio requested to see a doctor after her blood pressure went up twice in the afternoon session. She also had another hypertension surge Monday night forcing a similar abrupt halt to the canvassing of election returns.