Women who have marked the political landscape with grit and grace and who continue to engage the burning issues of the day for the people’s general benefit are the subjects of a new book, “Six Filipino Women for Justice.” Published by San Anselmo Press and edited by Asunción David Maramba, the book features profiles of...
Tag: Leni Robredo
‘Tayo ang Liwanag’: Leni’s account of presidential campaign
Leni Robredo’s “Tayo ang Liwanag: Journeying through Our People’s Campaign” will be launched on May 9, a year to the day of the May 2022 presidential election. The launch will start at 3 p.m. at the Museo ng Pag-asa (Museum of Hope) at 84 Cordillera St., Barangay Lourdes, Quezon City. In a livestream on Facebook...
Bogus vote tallies, candidate disqualifications top Election Day disinformation
Spurious last-ditch reports of candidates being disqualified and a buildup of fabricated vote tallies of presidential contenders took hold of social media as voters trooped to precincts on Monday. The misleading and deceptive narratives on election day largely targeted now presumptive president Ferdinand Marcos Jr. and his rival, Vice President Leni Robredo; their running mates,...
‘Consistent 47%’ ratios in votes of Marcos Jr., Robredo raise suspicion among netizens
From surprise and shock to outrage, netizens have reacted to the way the Commission on Elections’ partial and unofficial results of the May 9 voting for national officials were being presented and reported by broadcast networks. They cited an intriguing pattern in the percentage ratios of incoming votes of frontrunner Ferdinand Marcos Jr. and Vice...
The irony of Philippine elections
I knew this year’s elections would be different from all the others that we’ve had, but I didn’t want to make expectations. Elections in this country are like some exotic cultural rituals—festive and intoxicating events that teeter on the edge of total chaos. How we find a method to the madness—and survive—is a source of...
Passion and irony on the campaign trail
Monumental was the “miting de avance” of Vice President Leni Robredo in Makati City on May 7, dwarfing those of the other presidential candidates in terms of size and passion. The 780,000 estimate served to cap the throngs that came out to greet Robredo in cities and towns nationwide in the weeks and days leading...
Firehose of disinformation floods run-up to election
Disinformation operations continue relentlessly, as though in a last-ditch effort before Election Day. Filipino voters head to the polls on Monday after months of being engulfed in a relentless stream of falsehoods spewed out in multiple formats and platforms that is unprecedented in Philippine history. Tsek.ph’s second and latest analysis has tracked a high volume...
Political ‘game changer’ happens as campaign draws to a close
A few days before Election Day, as the campaign for the presidency neared the homestretch, this political “game changer” happened! It has surprised almost all partisan camps, notably the contenders in an obvious two-cornered fight. The game changer is the release of the finding of TruthWatch Philippines in an intercept survey that Ferdinand Marcos Jr....
Statistics expert sees Robredo win if ‘flawed’ surveys are corrected
Rectifying the “flaws” of latest Pulse Asia surveys will lead to good chances for Leni Robredo to win the presidential elections on May 9, according to a former secretary general of the then National Statistical Coordination Board (NSCB). “I think she has a chance. Huwag lang madaya (assuming there’s no massive cheating),” Ramon A. Virola...
A Robredo-Marcos Jr. rematch in 2022?
EDITOR’S NOTE: As early as January in the weekly OpinYon, political scientist Temario C. Rivera noted the battle lines in the May 9 presidential election. A rematch between Leni Robredo and Ferdinand Marcos Jr. looms large, in what may very well be the most consequential presidential election since the end of Ferdinand Marcos Sr.’s dictatorship...