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BENIPAYO AND BORRA

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Comelec officials must settle differences — JDV

March 11, 2002 - 12:00am

Speaker Jose de Venecia Jr. and other political leaders are scheduled to meet today with feuding members of the Commission on Elections to try to mediate their differences. De Venecia told reporters yesterday that...

Headlines

Solon files CA opposition vs Comelec execs

By Jess Diaz | March 9, 2002 - 12:00am

Rep. Prospero Pichay Jr. (Lakas, Surigao del Sur) formally lodged with the Commission on Appointments yesterday his opposition to the confirmation of Chairman Alfredo Benipayo and Commissioner Resurreccion Borra...

Headlines

Solon to file opposition vs confirmation of 2 Comelec execs

By Jess Diaz | March 5, 2002 - 12:00am

An administration congressman is set to oppose the appointments of Commission on Elections (Comelec) Chairman Alfredo Benipayo and Commissioner Resurreccion Borra, whom he blamed for the internal squabbling that...

Headlines

US Embassy scores Comelec inaction on P6.5-B VRIS

By Sandy Araneta | August 27, 2001 - 12:00am

The United States Embassy in Manila is asking the Commission on Elections (Comelec) about the progress of its computerization program, particularly its refusal to implement a P6.5-billion project on voters’...

Headlines

Tancangco to COA: Don’t look at me

By GOTCHA | By Jarius Bondoc | July 30, 2001 - 12:00am

In law, there can’t be guilt by association. You don’t condemn a woman for being a wife of a kidnapper. You don’t send to the gallows the baby of a rapist. Common sense tells us so.

Opinion