Lim, Isko win big in Manila BLURBAL THRUSTS Louie Logarta 05/13/2010

Lim, Isko win big in Manila

BLURBAL THRUSTS Louie Logarta 05/13/2010 In handing reelectionist Mayor Alfredo Lim and running mate Vice Mayor Francisco Domagoso (a.k.a. Isko Moreno) an unprecedented landslide victory in the hotly-contested City Hall derby in the country’s premier metropolis last Monday, Manila voters lived up to their decades-old reputation of inherently being anti-establishment, or in the language of politics, oppositionists. How else do you explain Lim’s riding roughshod over his most worthy opponent former Manila mayor and former Environment Secretary Lito Atienza by some 220,000 votes, and Moreno’s burying his strongest rival for the vice mayor’s post Councilor Bonjay Isip by an even bigger 370,000, based on the partial tally of the Commission on Elections a day later with 88 percent of all election returns accounted for? What made the feat all the more remarkable, according to the pundits, was that the Lim-Moreno tandem, who are the incumbents, were suddenly transformed into underdogs going into the final days of the campaign, that had turned acrimonious with both sides throwing all the muck they could lay their hands on at each other, when the leaders of an influential religious sect which had an estimated voting strength in Manila of more or less 200,000, denied them the support they were hoping for in favor of their rivals Atienza and Isip..... MORE Source:  The Daily Tribune URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20100513com4.html

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