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MANILA, Philippines—Great victories spawn great expectations. Instead of massing in our streets to oust disgraced leaders and to install new […]

DESPITE THE SWELTERING KILOMETRIC queues, technical glitches, carelessness, mismanagement and other booboos of Comelec and Smartmatic, our people persevered. Human

IT WAS CLEAR TO ME ALL THIS TIME THAT glitches and hitches in the automated election system would arise here

NEVER SINCE THE SNAP ELECTIONS OF 1986 has there been an electoral exercise as critical as the forthcoming polls eight

MANILA, Philippines—“Chief Justice, whom will you vote for as president and vice president?” So readers often ask me. With May

THE COMMISSION ON ELECTIONS IS PREPARing for the manual count of 30 percent of the ballots, in case the PCOS

MANILA, Philippines—The Commission on Elections has been reckless in accrediting party-list candidates and their nominees. A few days ago, the

MANILA, Philippines—“The brighter the sun gets, the less I see the ball when I drive it into the sky. I

MANILA, Philippines—The Constitution provides that chief justices (in fact, all justices and judges) are to be appointed by the president

MANILA, Philippines—The National Democratic Institute (NDI), a US-based think-tank that works in 110 countries and is associated with US President