On May 13th the People’s International Observation Mission held a press conference to report their preliminary findings about the election in the Philippines. Observers traveled to many areas throughout the country. Matthew Lang and Nancy Eng MacNeill went to the…
Read more »Advocate for human rights in the Philippines. Sign a petition calling for the release of the Morong 43 in the Philippines. Forty-three health workers were arrested in the Philippines in February. Among them is Dr. Alexis Montes, who has been…
Read more »Gracious God, we pray for the people of the Philippines: For those newly elected to office, grant wisdom to govern wisely, end repressive policies, and enact changes that benefit all the people; For candidates who lost in the elections, grant…
Read more »The team of election observers from the People’s International Observers Mission who served in Surigao del Norte gave a press conference on May 13. A press release was created for the event. Download press release by Surigao PIOM team. Note…
Read more »Presbyterians Matt Lang and Nancy Eng MacNeill were among the nine election observers from the People’s International Observers’ Mission (PIOM) who went to Surigao del Norte in Mindanao. The group divided into three smaller teams with one going to Dapa,…
Read more »Voters in the Philippines obtained priority numbers to vote. Each voting site had 10 secrecy folder per automated voting machines (PCOS). Ten voters at a time would be let into the voting room to fill in their ballots. The priority…
Read more »A PCOS voting machine is intialized in Cantugas, Mainit, Surigao del Norte, Mindanao Automated voting machines (PCOS) were chosen to reduce the possibilities of fraud and provide secrecy for the voters and the voting process. The PCOS machines, created by…
Read more »Presbyterian Peacemaking Program staff member Nancy Eng MacNeill writes: Election history in the Philippines has been fraught with fraud and corruption from before the time of Marcos to the current Arroyo regime. As a result, arriving in Manila for the…
Read more »Violence was reported during the election in the Philippines. Perhaps not as much as in previous elections. Perhaps not as much as had been feared. But violence was reported. One reported incident was a two-hour gunfight erupted as polling places…
Read more »Roger Scott Powers We travel today, fanning out across this vast archipelago. All praying to God for free and fair elections in the Philippines. Filipinos smile, masking fears of violence, coercion and fraud. Hoping for the best, these strong, determined…
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