MANILA – The Commission on Elections (Comelec) will move for the amendment of the Omnibus Election Code to explicitly define premature campaigning.
Comelec Commissioner Nicodemo Ferrer said in a budget hearing Wednesday at the Senate that they will submit their recommendations for this revision as the current law constrains them from running after presidential wannabes who have been airing advertisements even
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MANILA – The bidding to automate next year’s elections has been put under a cloud of doubt after it was revealed that one of the officials of the winning consortium is a consultant of a government agency that helped advise the poll body on the project.
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MANILA, Philippines – The Commission on Elections (Comelec) on Friday afternoon finally sealed the poll automation deal with winning consortium Smartmatic Corp.-Total Information Management (TIM) notwithstanding a petition for the Supreme Court to bar the signing of the P7.2-billion contract.
The signing of the contract will start the preparations for the first and historic automation program for the Philipp
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MANILA, Philippines – The dispute has ended. Smartmatic and its Filipino partner, Total Information Management (TIM), were able to iron out their differences over the control of funds for the P11.3-billion poll automation project after a three-hour meeting Friday.
"It’s a go for poll automation. Smartmatic and TIM are right now signing their joint venture incorporation papers," Commission on
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MANILA, Philippines – The Commission on Elections (Comelec) will know today whether or not partners Netherlands-based Smartmatic Corp. and Filipino-owned Total Information Management Corp. (TIM) have reconciled their differences and register as a joint venture to fulfill their contract to automate the 2010 elections.
Comelec spokesman James Jimenez yesterday said poll officials are clueless if the two firms
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MANILA, Philippines – The Commission on Elections has given the Netherlands-based Smartmatic Corp. and Filipino-owned Total Information Management Corp. (TIM) until Friday to decide whether or not they could push through with the automation contract for the 2010 elections.
Comelec chairman Jose Melo announced yesterday that money was the root of the fallout between the two companies, jeopardizing the automa
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Total Information Management Corp. (TIM) has pulled out of its partnership with Smartmatic Corp., putting the P11.3-billion poll automation project next year in jeopardy.
“Mr. Jose Antuñez (President of TIM) came to my office and told me they are withdrawing from the project citing their irreconcilable differences (with Smartmatic)," Elections Chairman Jose Melo told reporters, without mentioning the natu
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MANILA, Philippines – If President Arroyo decides to run for a congressional seat in Pampanga in the 2010 elections, it would be tantamount to abandoning the presidency, Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile said yesterday.
“I don’t think constitutionally she can do it, to run without forfeiting her seat as President,” he said.
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MANILA – Former Commission on Elections (Comelec) chair Christian Monsod predicted on Friday that the Supreme Court, and even President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, will uphold democracy in the face of a renewed attempt to approve charter change.
In an interview over dzMM Friday, Monsod, also one of the authors of the 1987 Constitution, said he believes that justices of the Supreme Court will not act on two pet
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BARAS, Rizal – Seventeen-year-old cousins Achilles Jerome Mañalac and Cezar Valencia are excited. Before the year ends, both of them will turn 18 and just like all of their age, they are looking forward to the benefits of adulthood – including the right to vote.
Achilles Jerome and Valencia are among the estimated 1.9 million first-time voters turning 18 in time for the May 2010 national and local ele
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