Credit to Author: clopez| Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2019 21:44:42 +0000
Malacañang is glad that Cotabato City voted to approve the Bangsamoro Organic Law (BOL), although more votes appeared to have been cast than there are voters there.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Alexander Magno| Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2019 16:11:11 +0000
The voter turnout last Monday for the Bangsamoro Organic Law (BOL) plebiscite exceeded 85 percent, Commission on Elections (Comelec) spokesperson James Jimenez announced on Wednesday.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Alexander Magno| Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2019 12:56:01 +0000
A peace advocate and professor of the Mindanao State University (MSU) blamed “moneyed politics” for the rejection in Sulu province of the proposed Bangsamoro Organic Law through a plebiscite held on Monday, Jan. 21.
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Credit to Author: ggaviola| Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2019 10:34:48 +0000
Commission on Elections (Comelec) spokesperson James Jimenez on Wednesday said that the commission would wait for the filing of complaints on the alleged manipulation of results of the Bangsamoro Organic Law (BOL) plebiscite in Cotabato City.
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Credit to Author: eestopace| Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2019 08:54:56 +0000
The voter turnout for the BOL plebiscite may exceed 75 percent expected as the Comelec continues to record high number of votes cast.
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Credit to Author: eestopace| Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2019 08:19:19 +0000
The result of the plebiscite to ratify the BOL “must be upheld despite discordant voices,” Malacañang said Wednesday.
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Read moreCredit to Author: eestopace| Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2019 06:38:26 +0000
The Commission on Elections (Comelec) expects to receive the first certificate of canvas from Mindanao on Wednesday afternoon.
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Read moreCredit to Author: besguerra| Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2019 23:24:13 +0000
A law giving the nation’s Muslim minority greater control over Mindanao appeared to be headed toward ratification on Tuesday as a slow count of votes in a plebiscite to which it had been submitted for approval or rejection by the people of the region entered a second day.
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Credit to Author: eestopace| Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2019 13:33:07 +0000
Despite the strong opposition of the Cotabato City’s mayor to the inclusion of the city in the new Bangsamoro entity, the “yes” votes still prevailed.
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Credit to Author: eestopace| Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2019 08:43:55 +0000
With the “overwhelming” ‘yes’ votes for BOL ratification, the country is finally seeing Mindanao “shed its history of conflict and enter an age of peace and progress.”
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