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                    [Title] => Rebelde nabitag
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                    [Title] => NPA: Abra pols to pay ‘campaign fees’
                    [Summary] => BANGUED, Abra — So, you want to run for a public office in this province?


Aside from the usual expenses that politicians have to shoulder in the coming elections, aspiring public servants here will have to pay a so-called "permit-to-campaign (PTC) fee" to the New People’s Army (NPA) in exchange for a chance to solicit votes inside rebel-controlled areas.

Diego Wadagan, spokesman of the Abra-based Agustin Begnalen Command, said they will impose the fee in areas where "Red political power has been established."
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                    [Summary] => BANGUED, Abra — So, you want to run for a public office in this province?


Aside from the usual expenses that politicians have to shoulder in the coming elections, aspiring public servants here will have to pay a so-called "permit-to-campaign (PTC) fee" to the New People’s Army (NPA) in exchange for a chance to solicit votes inside rebel-controlled areas.

Diego Wadagan, spokesman of the Abra-based Agustin Begnalen Command, said they will impose the fee in areas where "Red political power has been established."
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April 26, 2008 - 12:00am
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