The Daily IIJ

InterAksyon.com, the Philippines newest and fastest-rising news website recently launched a special interactive microsite on the poll cheating in the  2007 Midterm elections.

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MANILA, Philippines – Fake or highly questionable ballots and certificates of canvass gave strong evidence of “massive fraud” in the 2007 elections, and of how newly-proclaimed Senator, Aquilino ‘Koko’ Pimentel III was for four years unjustly denied a senate seat.

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MANILA, Philippines–  Visibly holding back the tears, Senator Jose Miguel Zubiri announced on Wednesday afternoon resigned from his post despite maintaining his innocence on the alleged poll cheating in 2007.

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Would it not be fantastic if the Nigerian voter could ask legislators in the state and national assemblies questions directly on issues that affects his or her constituency as well as topical national issues – for example what they think of the controversial Tenure Elongation Bill – and get responses from them in a few [...]

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MANILA, Philippines — Three of eight short video clips given to Senator Panfilo Lacson show several people, including uniformed men, carrying ballot boxes, presumably from the south wing of the Batasan Pambansa during the canvassing of votes for the 2004 presidential elections. 

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MANILA, Philippines – Justice Secretary Leila de Lima has given assurances that suspended Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao governor Zaldy Ampatuan, accused of being a principal in the November 23, 2009 Ampatuan massacre, cannot be freed from detention even if he is accepted as state witness in any case filed over the election fraud that [...]

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East Africa has a new baby. South Sudan is now the sixth East African country and President Salva Kiir is at the helm. For the country with more than 8 million citizens, Saturday will remain a momentous and emotional day. In January, they voted in an historic referendum to separate from the north. UN Secretary-General [...]

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President Mwai Kibaki on Friday launched a key website making Kenya the first country in sub saharan Africa to offer loads of government data to its citizens Citizens can now access data and participate in constitutional implementation process as well as hold the government accountable, President Kibaki said. The government has released several large datasets, [...]

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MANILA, Philippines – A niece of Maguindanao Mayor Esmael Mangudadatu, whose mother was one of 58 persons killed in the November 23, 2009 Ampatuan massacre in Maguindanao province, says the alleged killers, led by key members of the Ampatuan clan, should pay her P3 billion for her loss. Ayesha Vanessa Hajar Andamen, who said she [...]

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MANILA, Philippines—After being a no-show at last week’s trial, Lakmodin Saliao, the Ampatuans’ helper of more than two decades, positively identified his former masters as the brains in the 2009 mass murder of 58 people in Maguindanao.

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