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Oct 28, 2024 | 
rappler.com | anything Japanese
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Oct 23, 2024 | 
rappler.com | Miriam Grace Go |anything Japanese
MANILA, Philippines – Former vice president Leni Robredo on Wednesday morning, October 23, warned the public against a person posing as her and soliciting donations for those affected by the floods in Naga, her home city.
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Oct 18, 2024 | 
rappler.com | anything Japanese
MANILA, Philippines – Disinformation agents — those who spread lies, half-truths, and propaganda — are stepping up their game in time for the 2025 polls. And so the Commission on Elections (Comelec) — with the available resources, able partners, and the enormous powers it wields during the election period — is proactively addressing the associated threats and risks.
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Oct 16, 2024 | 
rappler.com | Dwight De Leon |James Patrick Cruz |Bea Cupin |anything Japanese
Bookmark this page to catch the discussion on Thursday, October 17, at 4 pm! MANILA, Philippines – The election fever reaches another level after individuals and groups filed their respective certificates of candidacy (COC), marking an important part of the election season. The COC filing from October 1 to 8 serves as a sneak peek into the campaign period for the 2025 elections.
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Oct 14, 2024 | 
rappler.com | anything Japanese
MANILA, Philippines – Campaigns in the last few election cycles have been increasingly done online. The downside of that is, social media presence has also become a way for candidates and political parties to skirt the limits and regulations that the Commission on Elections (Comelec) enforces. For the 2025 national and local elections, as well as the Bangsamoro parliamentary polls, the Comelec will attempt to address this loophole in the monitoring process.
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Oct 8, 2024 | 
rappler.com | Miriam Grace Go |anything Japanese
CAVITE, Philippines – After Governor Juanito Victor “Jonvic” Remulla Jr. withdrew his reelection bid, his nephew Francisco Gabriel “Abeng” Remulla filed his certificate of candidacy (COC) for the top provincial post on Tuesday, October 8. Abeng is currently a Cavite provincial board member representing the 7th District. His candidacy makes him the third child of Justice Secretary Jesus Crispin “Boying” Remulla to run in the 2025 local election.
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Oct 7, 2024 | 
rappler.com | Bea Cupin |anything Japanese
MANILA, Philippines — Juanito Victor “Jonvic” Remulla Jr., long-time governor of Cavite, is President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.’s pick to head the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG), it was confirmed on Monday, October 7. Remulla, who would have been eligible for one more three-year term as governor, withdrew his certificate of candidacy on Monday. Remulla confirmed to Rappler that he would taking his oath in Malacañang at 9 am on Tuesday, October 8.
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Oct 4, 2024 | 
rappler.com | anything Japanese
MANILA, Philippines – We’ve attached some ugly names to the Philippine party-list system over time: “bastardized,” “backdoor to Congress” of trapos (short for traditional politicians, but literally meaning dirty rag). And rightly so. Our system of proportional representation — a model in its original concept (makes you miss the brilliant senator Raul Roco) but weakened, even mangled, by various insertions, interpretations, and loopholes — has been exploited by various interest groups.
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Sep 30, 2024 | 
rappler.com | anything Japanese
MANILA, Philippines – When there are upcoming elections, there is the week-long filing of certificates of candidacy or nominations — the usual process — right? Yes, except there are new, stricter, and more practical and commonsensical guidelines that the Comelec is adopting when it accepts candidacies October 1-8, 2024. Did you know, for example, that independent candidates, political parties, and election watchdogs can, and are encouraged to deploy watchers during the COC filing?
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Sep 27, 2024 | 
rappler.com | anything Japanese
MANILA, Philippines – After Alice Guo’s connections to illegal activities and criminal personalities have been revealed, there is one basic question that Filipinos always go back to: How in the world did she become a mayor in the first place? As it turned out, in all the decades that she, a Chinese national, had lived in the Philippines assuming somebody else’s identity, Guo only registered as a voter in April 2021, half a year before the filing of candidacies for the 2022 elections.
