2022 Presidential Elections

[H1Tman]

Sa Supreme Court lulutuin yan.

[Flipo]

My guess is, hinihintay nilang mag retire si R.G. before making their move.

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Commissioner Rowena Guanzon revealed on Thursday that she voted for the disqualification of presidential aspirant Ferdinand Marcos Jr. in the pending petitions filed against him before the Commission on Elections (Comelec)’s First Division.

Guanzon said she had to make public her decision so that the Filipino people will be made aware of it because there are allegedly some attempts to “knock out” her vote as she is about to retire next week. Guanzon Says She Voted For Marcos Disqualification | OneNews.PH
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[Ry_Tower]

Sa Supreme Court lulutuin yan.

Mukhang hindi na aabot.

[kagalingan]

kita nyo si comelec guanzon G n G ma disqualify si bbm.

Ang nakikita ko dito kahit manalo bongbong eh hindi peaceful presidency. Madami gusto gumanti na G na G like bebe mishwa na nagpost ulit pero nawala naman. Sa tingin ko sa facebook nakikipag-ahway hahaha.

So again makukudeta yan tapos si sarah papalit na president.

marcos son kahit sikat sa survey eh weak president.

[H1Tman]

Mukhang hindi na aabot.

Yes. The other commissioner is just waiting for Guanzon to retire on Feb. 2 and do whatever they want. A Duterte Comelec and a Duterte Supreme Court.

[Flipo]

Yes. The other commissioner is just waiting for Guanzon to retire on Feb. 2 and do whatever they want. A Duterte Comelec and a Duterte Supreme Court.

Petitioners: BBM lied, COC must be nixed | Inquirer Opinion

Petitioners: BBM lied, COC must be nixed
By: Artemio V. Panganiban - *inquirerdotnet
Philippine Daily Inquirer / 05:02 AM January 30, 2022

As I explained last Sunday, the Second Division of the Commission on Elections (Comelec) refused to cancel the Certificate of Candidacy (COC) of Bongbong Marcos (BBM) because the petitioners failed to show that BBM lied (or in legalese, that BBM committed “false material representations”) when (A) he stated in Item No. 11 of his pro forma COC, as follows: “I am eligible for the office I seek to be elected to,” and (B) he answered “No” to the question in Item No. 22 of his COC that reads: “Have you ever been found liable for an offense which carries with it the accessory penalty of perpetual disqualification to hold public office, which has become final and executory?”

THESE REPRESENTATIONS ARE FALSE, insist the petitioners—through their counsel Theodore O. Te—in their motion for partial reconsideration (MR).

Regarding (A) eligibility, Te wrote that the Second Division admitted that BBM was convicted by the Court of Appeals (CA) “of a law that prescribes the penalty of perpetual disqualification to hold office… for an offender who is a public officer or employee.” But the Division wrongly “excluded BBM from the clear coverage of the law,” ruling (1) that he was not EXPRESSLY “meted” the accessory penalty and (2) that BBM was NO LONGER A PUBLIC OFFICER on March 18, 1986 when the law requiring the filing of his Income Tax Returns (ITR) for 1985 fell due because he (and his father) were exiled to Hawaii and ousted from their public offices in February 1986; and BBM, by his exile, abandoned his office as governor.

TE COUNTERED THAT (1) the CA did not need to impose expressly the penalty because “by operation of law,” it was “deemed written into the conviction,” and (2) BBM was still a public officer (governor) because under the then Provisional Constitution, “All elective and appointive officials and employees… shall continue in the office until otherwise provided by proclamation or executive order or upon the designation or appointment and qualification of their successors…” Moreover, abandonment of a public office is a crime, and according to Te, “It is exceedingly ludicrous for the Second Division to invoke the commission of a felony on behalf of the offender as a defense against a penalty prescribed by law for another crime…”

Regarding (B) on BBM’s “No” answer, Te argued, “All (the question) seeks to elicit is whether (BBM) was convicted of a crime… penalized with perpetual disqualification.” Unquestionably, he was.

Finally, Te asserted that BBM is conclusively presumed to know his conviction because he appealed it to the CA and thereafter to the Supreme Court (which he later withdrew). “As a former Vice Governor, Governor, Member of Congress, and Senator, he, more than the ordinary citizen, should have been more acutely aware of the laws, their binding effect, and their lasting consequences.” Hence, by knowingly making a false representation, he intended to “mislead, misinform, or hide a fact which would otherwise render him ineligible.”

AFTER READING THE RESOLUTION AND TE’S MR, I am convinced that in regard to BBM’s representation in Item No. 11, BBM—under the then Constitution—continued to be a public officer on March 18, 1986 when he was required (but failed) to file his ITR. To the best of my knowledge, Castor Raval was sworn in only as “acting governor” of Ilocos Norte which means that BBM was still the regular governor. Also, though his father was exiled to Hawaii, BBM did not present any proof he was forced to be exiled, too, and prevented from returning home.

Moreover, his “No” answer in Item No. 22 is “false” because the offense he was convicted of carried with it—in fact and in truth—the accessory penalty of disqualification from holding a public office. The question did not require that the penalty be “imposed” by a court, only that the “offense… carries with it the accessory penalty of perpetual disqualification…” That his conviction had not been raised in his earlier quests for public office does not excuse the falsity of his answer. Jalosjos v. Comelec (Oct. 9, 2012) held that a COC can still be canceled though, in the past, the candidate had been judged by the Comelec to be eligible to run, and has served twice as mayor.

I also think that BBM cannot be said to be unaware of the consequences of the offense he was convicted of because, to quote the Civil Code, “Ignorance of the law excuses no one from compliance therewith.” And to use a maxim familiar to law students, Ignorantia juris neminem excusat.

[kagalingan]

napansin ko mga deLawan voters ngayon pandemic eh pro-Lockdown. Pang walang future.

[uls]

coz that's the demographic

middle class, college educated

can work from home -- kaya no effect ang lockdown

that socioeconomic group is more likely to vote yellow/pink

[kagalingan]

^

siLa din madami anxiety. Grabe demand ngayon consuLtation psychiatrist. Yung isa kiLaLa ko may psychiatric faciLity LumaLagare.

[Flipo]

Yes. The other commissioner is just waiting for Guanzon to retire on Feb. 2 and do whatever they want. A Duterte Comelec and a Duterte Supreme Court.

The fell hand of corruption
By: Solita Collas-Monsod - *inquirerdotnet
Philippine Daily Inquirer / 05:06 AM January 29, 2022

Three issues exploded over our horizon this week, and this column is going to touch upon all three, and show how they are interrelated.

The first is Transparency International’s 2021 Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI), which came out four days ago. The Philippines scored 33 (0 is highly corrupt, 100 is very clean). That score is way below the averages for the world (44), the Americas (43), Asia-Pacific (45), and is half the score of Western Europe and EU (66). Our score is the same as the average of Sub-Saharan Africa, also 33.

When President Duterte started in 2016, the Philippines scored 35 points, and ranked 101 of 176. By end 2021, we were 117 of 180 with a score of 33. A triumph for corruption.

Noteworthy was the latest finding of TI: that upholding human rights is crucial in the fight against corruption, with countries violating civil liberties scoring lower on the CPI. The Philippines was among six countries used to illustrate this. Said TI’s chair, Delia Rubio, “Human rights are not simply a nice-to-have in the fight against corruption. Authoritarianism makes anti-corruption efforts dependent on the whims of an elite. Ensuring that civil society and the media can speak freely and hold power to account is the only sustainable route to a corruption-free society.”

The second issue is the awarding to the Villar family of the ABS-CBN channels. What struck me was how surreptitiously it was done—so there was no chance of a public outcry. The National Telecommunications Commission swears that everything was on the up-and-up. Why, then, the surreptitiousness?

It claims that it asked the opinions of the DOJ and Malacañang about the transaction without mentioning the name of the Villar company. So was that made to protect the government, the Villars, or the Filipino people?

The DOJ and Malacañang said they didn’t know. But do you really think, Reader, that they didn’t? All it took was to pick up the phone and ask who was involved. As for the Villars, that their name was not on the document assured them of no flags raised until the deed was done. So government and Villars were protected. The only ones who were not were the Filipino people. Government’s stand was to clean up the oligarchy—and they ended up giving more power to an existing oligarch. Without any competition.

And doesn’t something smell rotten, when such a plum prize (without benefit of bidding) is awarded to a family which supported heavily the Duterte campaign, and counts a sitting senator, a congresswoman, a former Cabinet secretary, and a Cabinet undersecretary (the DOJ) among its members?

I will ask you, Reader, to again read Delia Rubio, and you will realize that this issue is an example of the “abuse of high-level power that benefits the few at the expense of the many.”

The last issue is the Guanzon exposé, if one can call it that. Again, to my mind, this smacks of the effects of corruption—which retards the emergence of strong institutions. Bear with me. I gleaned the following information from the Comelec website on the big picture. Three of the seven commissioners—Inting, Casquejo and Ferolino, the last two of whom are with Guanzon’s First Division, are from Davao (Ferolino’s CV doesn’t say she’s from Davao, but it says she has been 26 years in the Comelec where she rose to provincial supervisor—and I saw elsewhere—of Davao). Two of them (Abas and Kho) are also from Mindanao. One of them (Guanzon) is from the Visayas, and one (Bulay, the newest appointee) is from the NCR.

Three of them (Abas, Inting, Casquejo), and maybe four (Ferolino’s CV doesn’t say where she got her law degree) earned their law degree from the Ateneo de Davao. Two of them graduated from San Beda law, and one (Guanzon) from the University of the Philippines.

Now I ask you, Reader, a Comelec with 42 percent of commissioners coming from one city, and 71 percent coming from Mindanao (with only 24 percent of our population), what do you make of this? Can you imagine the tremendous pressure that Casquejo and Ferolino must be under? The fell hand of corruption?

I am proud of Guanzon. She reminds me of Miriam Defensor Santiago. Hold fast, lady. Honor and excellence will prevail.

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Hahaha! Iba ka talaga BBM. Hinde na mag attend ng kahit na anong debate or interview dahil melrn attempt on his life pala. Grabe naman sa sobrwng credible ng source....tiktok. [emoji23]



NBI validating alleged Tiktok threat to assassinate presidential candidate Marcos Jr. | Philstar.com

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[Yatta]

Hahaha! Iba ka talaga BBM. Hinde na mag attend ng kahit na anong debate or interview dahil melrn attempt on his life pala. Grabe naman sa sobrwng credible ng source....tiktok. [emoji23]



NBI validating alleged Tiktok threat to assassinate presidential candidate Marcos Jr. | Philstar.com

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Talo pa ang IATF mag-meeting. Ganito na pala pati assassins mag-meetiing, virtual na. Hindi na sa mga liblib at madilim na warehouse.

[BratPAQ]

Hahaha! Iba ka talaga BBM. Hinde na mag attend ng kahit na anong debate or interview dahil melrn attempt on his life pala. Grabe naman sa sobrwng credible ng source....tiktok. [emoji23]



NBI validating alleged Tiktok threat to assassinate presidential candidate Marcos Jr. | Philstar.com

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Kahit zoom ang debate hindi mag attend yan. Baka ma baril sya through internet. [emoji23]

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[BratPAQ]

Hmm, this play sounds familiar.

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Hmm, this play sounds familiar.

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Eh lahat alam yan ang pwedeng gawin, sila mga engot ngayon lang nila na realized. [emoji23] pag engot talaga nagsama-sama


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[Flipo]

Eh lahat alam yan ang pwedeng gawin, sila mga engot ngayon lang nila na realized. [emoji23] pag engot talaga nagsama-sama


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Eto pa.[emoji23]


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[Mr. Witcher]

Eto pa.[emoji23]


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Bunga ng mga troll ni BBM. So sad kahit na nakikita nila mga magandang ginagawa ni VP Leni. #NOTOBBM #NEVERAGAIN [emoji25]

[dr. d]

Hahaha! Iba ka talaga BBM. Hinde na mag attend ng kahit na anong debate or interview dahil melrn attempt on his life pala. Grabe naman sa sobrwng credible ng source....tiktok. [emoji23]



NBI validating alleged Tiktok threat to assassinate presidential candidate Marcos Jr. | Philstar.com

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according to a radio interview i heard this morning,
isang buwan na raw nila alam yung so-called threat.

my take on the matter,
"if you announce to the public your intentions..."

[uls]

if bbm wins alam ng mga delaw gaganti si bbm bigtime

i mean kung gaano ka-vindictive ang mga delaw post-edsa 1986, they know what's coming pag nanalo si bbm

their big $$$ businesses could be at stake, their livelihood, their careers...

that's why they're so hellbent on disqualifying bbm

how far will they go to prevent bbm from becoming president?

i dunno

use a little imagination

#anotherunpopularopinion

#banme

[Flipo]

FORMULA NG MARCOS NETWORK, BISTADO NA PO

Gawing lovable celebrity ang Marcos family. Ultra-charming daw at inapi parang Cinderella. Inggit lang daw kasi maganda si Imelda at mayaman si Ferdinand.

Imbentuhin ang conspiracy ng buong mundo laban sa mga Marcos - US, World Bank, other countries na pinahiram daw ng ginto ni Marcos Sr., Aquinos, oligarchy, mass media, historians, intellectuals, elite, reds, nuns and priests - lahat daw nag-conspire para mapatalsik si Marcos mula sa Pilipinas.

Idikit ang word na “dilawan” sa kahit anong kapalpakan para matakot ang mga tao na magpakita ng suporta kay PNoy Aquino o kahit sinong sasalungat sa mga Marcos at Duterte.

Palabasin na evil widows sina Cory at Leni sa pagkamatay ng asawa nila - wala daw ginawa to get the truth on their deaths.

Sanayin ang mga supporters sa pangbu-bully ng kahit sinong may contrary view. Huwag mag-hesitate na mag-imbento nang mag-imbento ng istorya. Gawing hyped up at nearly-delirious kung maaari ang intensity ng emotional attachment sa mga narratives ng Marcos network.

May isang kakilala ako na nagmamagandang-loob by sharing an inside story. Kwento niya, for a budget of PhP 10 million, nakahanap yung grupo niya ng 50 influencers, mosty Bisaya-speaking na walang gagawin kundi purihin nang purihin si Duterte in the campaign for the 2016 elections. Effective nga naman, nag-snowball daw at iyun, nanalo nga si P Duterte. Bato lang daw sila nang bato ng materials, blog na nang blog ang mga recruits nila, kahit sa local at regional setting. Dahil sabay-sabay na pumupuri, nag-create itong network nila ng unstoppable momentum. Hindi siya nag-hesitate na aminin na perception lang talaga ang laro nila. Nasa inner circle po siya ng Davao support ni Duterte.

Ang ganitong pananaw ay kailangang pangimbabawan ng genuine people’s campaign na ang pinaglalaban ay katotohanan at katarungan. Ano’ng klaseng bansa ang hinuhubog ng panay imbento at spin? Para na rin tayong may alternate universe gaya ng sa North Korea.
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