Mock polls mock idea of ‘youth’ vote
For a certain generation, re-elected Senator Juan Ponce Enrile will always be known as the former martial law administrator and the inveterate coup plotter. But for the 2010 elections, Enrile won on a...
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Nat’l bets splurge P4.3B, local bets P162M on ads
THE TOP ad spender among the presidential candidates has already conceded, and his counterpart in the vice presidential race looks headed for a surprise loss as well. But it seems the government may...
View ArticleRisky start-ups?
A CLOSE look at election spending reports of seven presidential candidates and three political parties in the May 10 polls reveals that election campaigns are funded in the manner and mold of financing...
View ArticleOnly 308 donors funded campaign for presidency
AS A veteran fund-raiser for presidential candidates tells it, there are fewer awkward moments in the campaign than a meeting between the candidate and a potential donor, especially if they are seeing...
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Top bets for Prez, VP, party-lists in orgy of omissions, half-truths
First of Three Parts BY ALL ACCOUNTS, the May 10, 2010 polls was the costliest ever in Philippine electoral history. The top candidates for president and vice president alone spent P4.3 billion on...
View ArticleRebuffs & denials
PCIJ tried to reach the political parties and candidates involved, with varying levels of success. Attempts to pin down Presidential Spokesman Edwin Lacierda, for example, were rebuffed. According to...
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Party-list groups, 4 top bets conspire to skirt caps on ads
Second of Three Parts THEY are avowed representatives of the poor and the marginalized, but in the May 10, 2010 elections, 12 party-list groups allied with two candidates for president, one for vice...
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All right to lie, cheat, bluff? Election laws gray, untested
Last of Three Parts IT WAS 1992; Fidel V. Ramos had just been voted as president, and Joseph ‘Erap’ Estrada as vice president. Presidential bet Miriam Defensor Santiago was crying foul, saying she had...
View ArticlePetty, big, routine graft a lucrative trade at AFP
Second of three parts EIGHT YEARS ago in 2003, the PCIJ had exposed how the soldiers themselves were arming the enemy, by selling bullets and guns at fat discounts to rebels. To make matters worse, the...
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Fickle presidents, opaque JBC process, elitist court
First of Two Parts MOSTLY old, mostly male, mostly born and bred in imperious Luzon and all schooled in imperial Manila. Two in every three were jurists and bureaucrats in their previous lives, and...
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