TODAY'S special elections in Lanao del Sur assume a particular significance as the voting results -- with 96,229 votes at stake -- will have a bearing on the last three contested seats in the senatorial race (see the latest tally), as well as on the...

SUDDENLY, Namfrel’s much-vaunted speedy parallel tally of the votes has gone slow-mo. Not so long ago, the organization otherwise known as the National Citizens’ Movement for Free Elections used to be way ahead of the Commission on Elections...

CALL it the poll watching equivalent of a military carpet-bombing: election-monitoring groups have not only multiplied in number since 2004, they have now gone beyond conducting parallel tallies that were first made popular by the National Citizens'...

SAYING his gesture of "generosity" is misplaced, journalists announced they are still pursuing the class-action suit they filed against First Gentleman Jose Miguel Arroyo despite his announcement more than two weeks ago that he is withdrawing the libel...

WITH the ruling Lakas-Christian Muslim Democrats (Lakas-CMD) having the most number of seats in the House of Representatives, it is now most unlikely that a third impeachment case against President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo would prosper, opposition leaders...

ABRA'S violent political culture has again left a trail of blood and dead bodies in the wake of the 2007 midterm elections, with poll-related violence claiming 16 more lives while wounding seven others. Based on the tally by the Philippine National...

AFTER what many believe to be questionable results of the elections in Maguindanao that showed a "clean sweep" of the the senatorial race by administration candidates, the focus of attention should shift to another province in the Autonomous Region of...