NEWS
TRENDS
COMELEC
alarmed on possible MILF threat in August 11 ARMM election
Comelec
Chair Jose Melo has expressed his concern over the issuance of temporary
restraining order (TRO) by the Supreme Court to the signing of the
agreement on the new Bangsamoro homeland between the Government
of the Republic of the Philippines (GRP) and the Moro Islamic Liberation
Front (MILF), which according to the election chief would have caused
another problem particularly on peace and order during the ARMM
elections on August 11.
Meanwhile,
the Philippine National Police (PNP) is sending more than 6,000
of its men to the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao as augmentation
force in preparation for a “worst-case scenario” in
a traditionally volatile elections in the region as well as for
the upshot of the Supreme Court’s temporary restraining order
on a deal on territory with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front.
All
systems go for automated ARMM elections
“Even
a climate of fear won’t stop polls in ARMM”, Comelec
Chair Jose Melo said this week as the election body called on voters
in the ARMM to go out and vote on August 11 despite the “climate
of fear” brought by the failed signing of an ancestral domain
deal between the GRP and the MILF. Melo also added that Comelec
will proceed with the elections as planned saying that ARMM voters
should take part in this exercise to “show the rest of the
Filipino people how to do it.”
In
preparation for the election, voting machines were being shipped
from at least 2,000 election centers in the region. ARMM has at
least 1.5 million voters.
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