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and unofficial 34,123 votes on Wednesday noon, was leading hotly contested congressional race in the city’s 2 nd Congressional district here. “Let us heal the wounds of politics and move forward for the good of the people,” Rodriguez said in a text message Wednesday. Rodriguez served as Party List Representative of Abante Mindanao (ABAMIN) for two terms before he ran for the Congressional seat in the May 9 2016 elections – a seat vacated by his brother Rufus Rodriguez, who served as Cagayan De Oro’s representative for three consecutive terms. He said that he would continue the programs that he and his brother had pursued when they were in Congress in the field of education, infrastructure, health, and the legislation of laws. Rufus Rodriguez ran for the mayoral post, but has conceded defeat Tuesday after having been left behind by the two other mayoral rivals who already gathered twice more than his votes. As of Wednesday afternoon, the canvassing of votes in Cagayan De Oro City already reached more than 75 percent after the local poll body suspended the canvassing for two days due to poor and slow transmission of results. Incumbent city Mayor Oscar Moreno was leading the unofficial count with former city Mayor Vicente Emano closely tailing win a margin of more than 10,000 voters by mid-Wednesday.
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Based on its latest count, Moreno of Liberal Party got a total of 97,033 votes. Emano, the titular head of the PaDayon Pilipino (PDP), got only 80,786 votes while a third candidate who conceded earlier, Rep. Rufus Rodriguez, got 61,804 votes. According to the Comelec, some 255,761 voted in last Monday’s election in Cagayan de Oro City. Carmen barangay kagawad Raineir Joaquin Uy, the runningmate of Moreno, got 93,360 votes, winning over reelectionist Vice Mayor Caesar Ian Acenas, the runningmate of Emano, managed to snatch only 84,324 votes. Third candidate Councilor Roger Abaday could muster only 42,201 votes. Reelectionist first district Rep. Rolando Uy retained his seat by getting 57,094 votes, upsetting challenger Councilor Candy Darimbang (51,208). The second district was a contested seat between three contenders – outgoing partylist Rep. Maximo Rodriguez Jr., Councilor Ramon Tabor and ex-Councilor Edgar Cabanlas. It emerged Rodriguez as the clear winner, garnering 46,363 votes. PaDayon Pilipino will
still be the dominant party at the City Council from now until 2019. It garnered eight seats. Liberal Party was able to snatch six seats while the Centrist Democratic Party (CDP) got two. Those who made it to the City Council are reelectionist Zaldy Ocon, lawyer Lordan Suan, reelectionist Edna Dahino, Tignapoloan barangay chair Jay Pascual, retired Brig. Gen. Romeo Calizo, businessman George Goking, reelectionist Annie Daba and dentist Reuben Daba for the first district; reelectionist Nadya Elipe, Dr. Malou Gaane, reelectionist Dometilo Acenas Jr., ex-Councilor Ian Mark Nacaya, reelectionist Leon Gan, reelectionist Teodulfo Lao, ex-mayoral daughter Suzette Daba and reelectionist Enrico Salcedo. Meanwhile, canvassing is continuing at City Hall as of this writing after it was delayed for more than two days due to the weak signal of the broadband global area network.
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the FTS [final testing and sealing],” said Carl Byrd Cabaraban, PPCRV local coordinator, during a press briefing here. The FTS were conducted in various polling precincts all over the country by the Comelec to check if the VCMs are functioning well, at least three days before the elections. Also, authorities apprehended a village official here for allegedly engaging in vote-buying on the eve of the May 9 local and national elections, police said Monday. Cabaraban said that the National Citizens Movement for Free Elections (NAMFREL) local chapter also reported about the arrest of a village official who was allegedly engaged in “vote-buying.” NAMFREL identified the suspect as a certain Salvador Misca, 47, and the incumbent village chief of Pigsag-an, this city. The report said that Misca was arrested by the combined elements of the Lumbia police station and Tactical Operations Group-10 (TOG-10) that conducted mobile patrol in the area, Cabaraban said. Allegedly seized from the suspect were sample ballots, election paraphernalia and cash amounting to around Php41,000. Misca refused to talk to the local media. The report said that the sample ballots reportedly belonged to the Padayon Pilipino (Move on Pilipino) and the letterhead of the opposition United Nationalist Alliance (UNA). Mayoral candidate Vicente Emano, head of the Padayon Pilipino political party, said that “the arrest was just right, if it was true that the money was given to the voters.” “If it’s true that money was given, it was just right that they made the arrest,” Emano said in a separate interview. Reports also alleged of votebuying at the covered court in the village of Nazareth, but mayoral candidate Rep. Rufus Rodriguez, said that what transpired was the distribution of honorarium to party workers and watchers. Rodriguez, president of the Centrist Democratic Party (CDP) political party, said that the CDP does not “tolerate vote-buying.” (PNA)
Duterte camp confident they can have an ally as House Speaker By Antonio L. Colina IV of MindaNews
DAVAO City––The camp of incoming president Rodrigo R. Duterte, during a meeting here today, is confident they can have an ally to win the speakership of the House of Representatives. In an interview at the Marco Polo Davao, third-time Davao City Rep. Karlo Alexei Nograles said that Pantaleon “Bebot” Alvarez (PDP-Laban), one of the representatives from Davao del Norte, is the top choice to vie for the speakership. Nograles, who is congressman since 2010, was in the meeting of Duterte’s transition committee and allies which started in the morning; he left at past 2 p.m. He said that he believes they have the numbers to get enough votes in the lower house to elect a Duterte ally as House Speaker. “We need to have a House Speaker who will support the policy legisla-
tive agenda and the directions of the Duterte administration,” he said. Sen. Alan Peter Cayetano, the running mate of the incoming president, arrived at the hotel past 3 p.m. to join the meeting of the transition committee, which was still ongoing as of press time. Peter T. Laviña, spokesperson of Duterte, in his Facebook post disclosed the members of the transition committee: campaign manager Jun Evasco, assistant campaign manager and executive assistant Christopher Bong Go, former cabinet member and head of campaign finance committee Carlos G. Dominguez, lawyers Medialdea and Loreto Ata (Duterte’s personal lawyers), and Laviña himself. In a press conference at the Royal Mandaya Tuesday, Laviña said that they are working out for the formation of four committees, namely: transition committee, selection committee, policy group, and inauguration committee. He said the transition committee
will work for the smooth transition of the incoming president with outgoing President Benigno Simeon Aquino III, the selection committee will help Duterte vet and select prospect personalities to be appointed as members of the cabinet, while the policy group will work on programs that need immediate actions for the next three to six months of the incoming administration. Duterte earlier said that he would like a simple inauguration with select guests, as he does not want to disturb the public with traffic congestions. The 71-year-old Duterte was elected mayor in 1988. He served as mayor until 1998, and again for three terms from 2001 to 2010. He served as first district representative from 1998 to 2001 and vice mayor to daughter Sara from 2010 to 2013. He was elected mayor again in 2013, and by June 30 shall have completed 22 years as mayor of Davao City.
Special polls to be held in Sarangani precinct
GENERAL Santos City–– The Commission on Elections (Comelec) will hold a special election for a polling precinct in Maitum town in Sarangani after the voting was cancelled during Monday’s general elections due to misrouted ballots. Lawyer Duque Kadatuan, Comelec-Sarangani acting supervisor, said a “failure of elections” had been declared at clustered precinct number 03 of the Malalag Central Elementary School due to the absence of official ballots. “We already submitted a request to our central office for the conduct of a special election there,” he said. Francisca Josol, Maitum election officer, said the precinct’s board of election inspector and poll clerks discovered the misrouted ballots after it opened for the voting at 6 a.m. last Monday. She said the delivered ballots were marked for a clustered precinct in Sta. Cruz town in Marinduque. But she said the assigned vote-counting machine and other election paraphernalia were properly marked for the precinct. “The machine was okay. Our only problem was the wrongly-delivered ballots,” Josol said. She said the affected clustered precinct has a total of 667 voters from original precincts 004A, 004B, 005A and 005B. Josol said they eventually decided to close down the precinct and posted a notice that voting has been cancelled and that they already reported the matter to
Lanao Sur Canvassing. Because of security threats, canvassing for all
towns in Lanao del Sur was merged under one roof at the the Lanao del Sur provincial gymnasium in Marawi City on Tuesday (10 May 2016). MindaNews photo by Froilan Gallardo
the Comelec central office. Kadatuan said they are currently waiting for the schedule of the special election, which will be decided by their central office. Citing previous cases, he said the special election will immediate be conducted
once the official ballots for the precinct arrive. The official said the provincial board of canvassers will determine whether it could proceed with the proclamation of the winning candidates at the provincial level despite the absence of
the votes from the affected precinct. “For the positions that we deem will no longer be affected, we can proceed with the proclamation. But we have to get the approval of the regional election director for that,” he added.
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