by Emil Maranon | Oct 11, 2018 | Elections
The prohibitions are not absolute…. The consistent trend of the Supreme Court is to uphold free speech and expression over any form of election regulation. Facebook users have recently been sharing a post from 2016 with a very catchy title: “Government employees...
by Emil Maranon | Sep 25, 2018 | Elections
Here’s why candidates should pay attention to every detail in the certificate of candidacy Many were stunned when President Rodrigo Duterte recently issued a proclamation seeking to void the amnesty of that Senator Antonio Trillanes IV received in 2011 from...
by Emil Maranon | Aug 11, 2018 | Elections
Under current laws, the Commission on Elections is both an administrator and a quasi-court. Its split personality presents a lot of complications. The Commission on Electons (Comelec) is a strange constitutional creature. Unlike in most jurisdictions where the sole...
by Emil Maranon | Jul 16, 2018 | Elections
It is in the voting precincts, not on Twitter or Facebook, where voters shake things up. Will the 2019 elections be game changing or make us slide faster to the kangkungan? I happened to be in London in 2016, when its present mayor, Sadiq Khan, was elected. I had just...
by Emil Maranon | May 12, 2018 | Elections
By putting undue pressure on candidates to do something that might affect their candidacy, Director General Oscar Albayalde is intervening in the elections. Shortly after the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) and the Department of the Interior and Local...
by Emil Maranon | May 5, 2018 | Elections
It is also considered electioneering and a partisan political activity because it is ‘an act designed to promote the…defeat of a particular candidate or candidates to a public office’ On April 30, the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency released a list of barangay...
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