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COTABATO CITY – The former spokesman of deposed President Joseph Estrada and his wife ignored yesterday’s signing  of a  peace covenant by candidates for local positions here to ensure a peaceful election in May.


Opposition stalwart Didagen Dilangalen, a candidate for the congressional seat of Shariff Kabunsuan, and wife Bai Sendig, who is running for mayor here, both failed to appear at the venue of the signing of the covenant, organized by the Commission on Elections (Comelec), the city police and the Army’s 6th Infantry Division.


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                    [Summary] => COTABATO CITY — Last but not least. 


The city’s board of canvassers finally proclaimed at the national office of the Commission on Elections in Intramuros, Manila the other night the secretary-general of the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) as the winner in the May 10 mayoral race here. 


Lawyer Lintang Bedol, chairman of the city’s board of canvassers, announced yesterday over Catholic radio station dxMS here that they had wrapped up their canvassing of the election returns for local positions and, from their tally, Sema emerged the winner. 

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Lintang Bedol, Maguindanao election supervisor, confirmed having received the order of the Comelec central office to continue the canvassing of votes for mayor and other local positions in Manila, in response to the petition of Sema’s lone rival, Estrellita Juliano. 


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"There is no reason for the city to be listed either in the Come—lec’s areas of immediate concern," Senior Superintendent Adjijul Taradji, city police chief, told Catholic radio station dxMS yesterday.


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Cotabato City Mayor Muslimin Sema, chairman of the city peace and order council, said the move of local candidates of the Koalisyon ng Nagkakaisang Pilipino (KNP), led by mayoralty aspirant Estrellita Juliano, is sending "wrong signals" to investors planning to venture into viable projects here.


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Opposition stalwart Didagen Dilangalen, a candidate for the congressional seat of Shariff Kabunsuan, and wife Bai Sendig, who is running for mayor here, both failed to appear at the venue of the signing of the covenant, organized by the Commission on Elections (Comelec), the city police and the Army’s 6th Infantry Division.


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Former Estrada spokesman snubs peace covenant

By John Unson | April 15, 2007 - 12:00am

COTABATO CITY – The former spokesman of deposed President Joseph Estrada and his wife ignored yesterday’s...

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Cotabato City’s Sema elected to second term

By John Unson | June 3, 2004 - 12:00am

COTABATO CITY — Last but not least. The city’s board of canvassers finally proclaimed at the national office of the Commission on Elections in Intramuros, Manila the other night the secretary-general...

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Cotabato City folk protest transfer of canvassing to Manila

By John Unson | May 31, 2004 - 12:00am

COTABATO CITY — Supporters of re-electionist Mayor Muslimin Sema staged a rally at the city plaza yesterday to dramatize their opposition to the order last Saturday of the Commission on Elections (Comelec) transfering...

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Cotabato canvassing slowed down by bickerings

May 26, 2004 - 12:00am

COTABATO CITY — For the third time, the Commission on Elections (Comelec) has formed a board of canvassers to oversee the tabulation of results of the last elections here, after the process was made slow by...

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‘No need for Comelec control of Cotabato City’

April 28, 2004 - 12:00am

COTABATO CITY — The city police has brushed aside as "virtually premature" the clamor of the local opposition camp for the Commission on Elections (Co—melec) to put all of the city’s 37 barangays...

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Cotabato City folk nix poll ‘hot spot’ tag

April 17, 2004 - 12:00am

COTABATO CITY — This city’s business and religious communities have chided anew the local opposition for persistently asking the Commission on Elections (Comelec) to declare the city a poll "hot spot."...

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