NEWS: Comelec unseats Panlilio as Pampanga governor

[badsekktor]

among ed doesnt have the money nor the machinery to push a campaign last elections so how could he cheat? I am begining to think that comelec is compromised.......

Jon Jon Mendoza and Josie Mendoza de la Cruz ay mga kakampi ni GMA.

Talagang dinaya lang nila si Pagdanganan, na maka-GMA rin.

Ganyan ang laban sa Bulacan nung 2007. Lakas-Kampi vs. Lakas-Kampi o Lakas vs. Kampi.

Gumamit ng Pera at Goons si Josie de la Cruz para ma-pwesto kapatid nya na isang baranggay official lang dati!

3 sana sila maglalaban kaso sa pagkakaalam ko nakiusap si Obet kay Villarama (Vice Gov) Which is much better option than those 2. Si Obet eh mahina na sa bulacan dahil sa kapatid nya at sa mga rumors ng corruption niya (Katas daw yun North Bel Air subd)

About the Mendoza's....... Swerte nila yun lang inabot nila..... mainit din yan sa palasyo sa pagkakaalam ko.....

Natatawa lang ako since si Josie ang apprentice ni Obet before pa naupo na Gov si Josie saka pareho style ni Obet, Josie at ni Jonjon, usually 4 or 3 sa convoy yan, pare-parehong SUV na may wangwang at blinker at hari ng kalsada.

[Gerbo]

Di ba Comelec and nagbibilang sa eleksyon at nag-proclaimed kon sino nanalo?

Ibig ba sabihin hindi sila marunong magbilang noon?

[Zeus]

Binayaran na siguro ang mga taga Comelec...

[CVT]

I am really disenchanted by this development.....

9303:grin2:

[chua_riwap]

Parang wala na atang interes si Pineda na umupo. Di nagmamadali. Sabi nya, 2 buwan na lang, kaya walang gulo sa Kapitolyo.........

[ghosthunter]

Parang wala na atang interes si Pineda na umupo. Di nagmamadali. Sabi nya, 2 buwan na lang, kaya walang gulo sa Kapitolyo.........

Well, Panlilio can/will file his legal protest and that will take time. More time than the two months left for Pineda.

[jjmd3_787]

It's what they call the LP massacre . . . yep, Mendoza-Panlilio-Padaca are all under the Liberal Party flag.

. . . hindi ba masyadong obvious, Nicodemus Ferrer? Dapat hindi si Atty. Pamatong ang ikinulong e . . . dapat kayo!

[james00112233]

Well, Panlilio can/will file his legal protest and that will take time. More time than the two months left for Pineda.

hopefully ganun nga ang mangyayari... dahil kung hindi, malamang sure-ball na si pandak dun....

[chua_riwap]

Si Mark Lapid daw ang tunay na nanalo sa recount sa Pampanga?




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CITY OF SAN FERNANDO—And the winner is—Mark Lapid!

Too bad Lapid is not allowed to claim the post of governor of Pampanga although he won the biggest number of votes in the recount of the ballots cast in the 2007 gubernatorial contest.

Lawyers said Lapid, the reelectionist governor, was not a party to the recount case, whose result was announced by the Commission on Elections (Comelec) Feb. 11, and could not invoke victory.

Only the losers—Gov. Eddie Panlilio and former Board Member Lilia Pineda—can.

The recount conducted by the Comelec second division showed that Pineda received 190,729 votes, Panlilio 188,718 and Lapid, 210,875 votes.

In the 2007 race, Lapid had placed third among six candidates.

Lapid, a movie actor and son of Sen. Manuel “Lito” Lapid, is now head of the Philippine Tourism Authority.

Lawyer Temie Lambino, Comelec provincial supervisor, said only the votes cast for Panlilio and Pineda were officially revised.

“Mr. Lapid was not a party to the case so his votes had not been revised,” Lambino told the Inquirer.

He said that Lapid did not file a petition for a recount within 10 days after the proclamation of the winner according to the election rules.

The former governor had conceded to Panlilio, a Catholic priest, on the second night of the provincial canvassing of votes in 2007.

Paul Tristan Laus, Lapid’s running mate in the 2007 election, said his friend had “not given the issue a thought.”

Lapid is not running for governor this May. His father, also an actor-turned-politician, backed out of the gubernatorial race, opting to seek reelection.

That left Panlilio of the Liberal Party and Pineda of Lakas-Kampi-CMD in a rematch. The third candidate, Ricardo Ocampo, is an independent.

Namfrel count

The Comelec recount has prompted questions from Panlilio and Pineda.

Panlilio wanted the Comelec to explain how he lost the 30,988 votes from his 2007 tally.

The numbers in the recount were also confusing when the tally was reviewed against those of the National Citizen’s Movement for Free Elections (Namfrel) in Pampanga.

The Namfrel report on the 2007 polls showed that the province had 1,125,810 registered voters, lower than Comelec’s record of 1,128,411 voters.

In its tabulation in 5,606 (98.85 percent) of 5,671 precincts, Namfrel said those who actually voted totaled 762,448. The Comelec count of actual voters, however, was 779,100.

The Namfrel report showed that Panlilio garnered 218,571 votes; Pineda, 216,788; and Lapid, 206,789.

A Namfrel staff member wondered why the votes in the recount were lower.

“Shouldn’t the numbers for Pineda go up since she said that votes with her nickname, ‘Nanay Baby,’ were not counted before? The count is over but the votes are lacking?” said the staff, who asked not to be named for lack of authority to speak on the issue.

Motion of execution

Pineda’s lawyer, George Irwin Garcia, filed a motion for execution after the results of the recount were announced.

Panlilio’s lawyer, Sixto Brillantes, sought a motion for reconsideration. He said more than 4,500 ballots written with “Among” or “Ed” have not been counted in Panlilio’s favor.

During a protest rally on Wednesday, about 1,000 Panlilio supporters pelted with tomatoes a tarpaulin showing the images of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, Pineda and Nicodemo Ferrer, Comelec second division chair.

“The Comelec second division has failed to honestly perform its mandate,” said Arnel Manliclic, Kapampangan Kontra Recount spokesperson. “In so doing, it did not respect the facts. In fact, it bastardized the truth,” Manliclic said. With a report from Charlene Cayabyab, Inquirer Central Luzon

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[SIZE="3"]Mark Lapid told: You’re using Grade 1 arithmetic[/SIZE]

By Kristine L. Alave, Tonette Orejas
Central Luzon Desk, Philippine Daily Inquirer
First Posted 03:02:00 02/20/2010

Maybe he used Grade 1 arithmetic.

Election Commissioner Nicodemo Ferrer burst into laughter when told that some quarters believed that Mark Lapid, one of the losing candidates in the three-way Pampanga gubernatorial race in 2007 was the rightful victor in the election held three years ago.

“Maybe we can surmise that he was using Grade 1 arithmetic methods. He adds the votes of [Pampanga Gov. Eddie] Panlilio and [Lilia] Pineda and the total, you subtract from the number of those who voted. Maybe he thinks the balance was for him,” Ferrer said in an interview Friday.

“I took it as entertainment from a politician,” he added.

Ferrer, who was in charge of the recount, said they did not even count Lapid’s votes, as he had not filed an electoral complaint.

The recount conducted by the Commission on Elections (Comelec) Second Division ruled that Panlilio got fewer votes than Pineda.

No legal right to intervene

The Second Division said the recount, which started in August 2009, showed that Pineda received 190,729 or 2,011 more votes than Panlilio, who got 188,718 votes.

In the original 2007 count, Panlilio received 219,706 or 1,147 more votes than Pineda’s 218,559 votes. Lapid placed third with 210, 875 votes.

Pineda filed an electoral complaint immediately after the May 2007 elections but Lapid did not.

Ferrer said Lapid had no legal right to intervene in the electoral feud between Pineda and Panlilio.

‘I feel vindicated’

Meanwhile, Lapid, the actor-turned-politician, now head of the Philippine Tourism Authority, said on Friday he would not snatch the gubernatorial post from Panlilio or Pineda.

“I feel vindicated,” Lapid told the Central Luzon-based radio station dwRW in reaction to an Inquirer story on his being regarded as the winner in the 2007 election.

“I’m happy to know I’ve won,” said Lapid, who was in Cagayan de Oro City during the interview.

However, Lapid could not be declared the winner in the 2007 race as he did not file a petition for recount, according to Comelec provincial supervisor Temie Lambino.

It was Pineda who asked for a recount as she, in her petition, accused Panlilio, a Catholic priest, of allegedly buying and padding votes and using fake ballots and coercion.

Lapid would not be able to file a motion for intervention because the rules did not allow this, Lambino said.

Not interested

Lapid said he was not interested in claiming the seat.

“I prefer to concentrate on the PTA,” he said. President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo had appointed him general manager of the agency a year after he lost in his reelection bid.

“He does not want to rock the boat. He and his father (actor-turned-senator Manuel “Lito” Lapid) are not active in Pampanga politics in the meantime,” said a source in the Lapid camp who requested anonymity.

Cleansing the votes

On the other hand, Panlilio, a priest on leave, asserted he was the winner in the 2007 polls.

“This is the second time I am the victim of cheating,” he said, referring to an electoral fraud allegedly committed by his rivals. He said more than 20,000 votes were supposedly taken from him during the counting at the precinct level.

Pampanga columnist Caesar Lacson said the recount in a way “cleansed some impurities” in the votes cast for Panlilio and Pineda.

Because the votes for Lapid were not appreciated and revised during the recount, they remained “raw,” he said.

Less votes in recount?

Lacson said Lapid, who placed third in the 2007 contest, would have lost more votes if he had been subjected to a recount.

This was because the ballot boxes in Mabalacat and Arayat, towns where Lapid had the most number of votes, were destroyed by fire and floods after the provincial canvassing of votes.

“We have a pretty interesting situation,” Lacson observed.

Pineda declined to react to Lapid’s virtual win. “My lawyers are on the case. I expect due process,” she said.

She has shouldered the cost of the recount, which initially reached P4.1 million, according to a copy of a check paid to the Comelec.