An electoral disaster waiting to happen EDITORIAL 01/05/2010

An electoral disaster waiting to happen EDITORIAL Click to enlarge 01/05/2010 Norberto Gonzales, acting Defense chief, who has been just a little over a month in his post, appears hell-bent in ensuring electoral fraud through the active participation of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP). He wants an expanded military participation in the 2010 polls, which will do away with the memorandum of agreement (MoA) inked between the Commission on Elections (Comelec) and the Defense Department-AFP in time for the 2007 senatorial polls, which, apart from a few instances of fraud, especially in Maguindanao, were fairly clean.....MORE Source:  The Daily Tribune ALTERNATE URL: http://www.classicposters.com/commentary/20100105com1.html

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