MAYOR Belen Fernandez laughed off the disinformation being peddled by her political detractors that she almost lost to Celia Lim, BSL Team’s candidate for mayor when votes for them were tallied. “The truth is, since I was unopposed after my lone opponent backed out weeks before the election, I only…
LINGAYEN— Very peaceful, no reported election-related violent incidents in Pangasinan, the top police officer here said. P/Senior Supt. Edgar Allan Okubo, officer-in-charge as police director, said no untoward or violent incident has been reported so far in all the 44 towns and four cities in Pangasinan. Okubo said he’s pleased…
EIGHT UNOPPOSED LINGAYEN— Thirty-five mayors were re-elected while 13 others were elected either for the first time or regained their posts after a term or two. In the First District, re-elected mayors were: Joel Pajeta (Agno), Arthur Celeste (Alaminos City), Aldrin Cerdan (Anda), Gwen Yamamoto (Bani), Arnold Celeste (Bolinao), Alberto…
2016 LIMGAS NA PANGASINAN— The year’s most beautiful ladies of Pangasinan stand together to commit themselves to promote the province’s tourism attractions and natural resources shortly after they were announced winners in this year’s search for Limgas na Pangasinan. The outstanding beauties are (from left) Christine Joy F. Picardal (Sison), 3rd…
FROM COMELEC WEBSITE HACKING? THE stolen data of voters from the Commission on Elections’ hacked website are suspected already being used in the large-scale vote buying in Pangasinan. This suspicion was bolstered by the evidence gathered for the rampant vote-buying included a card board stub containing the voter’s data base,…
I GOT MINE, TOO — Gov. Amado Espino Jr. is joined by other voters in showing to the local media who also received their stubs that contain their voter’s data and a quick response (QR) code reportedly intended as a claim stub for cash in a pre-designated location, during a…
HIGH TECH PROCESSING LINGAYEN–Gov. Amado Espino Jr. denounced what he calls massive vote-buying all over Pangasinan perpetrated by his opponents using modern technology whom he accused of bastardizing legal processes instituted by the election laws and the Commission on Elections (Comelec). In a press conference at the Urduja House on…
“IT’S THEM, NOT US!” SISON—Two days before the election, the Espinos and the Cojuangcos traded barbs on massive vote-buying in the province. Gov. Amado Espino Jr accused his rival, re-electionist Rep. Kimi Cojuangco who is seeking her third term, of massive vote –buying, with her husband, former Rep. Mark Cojuangco,…
IT GOES LIKE THIS — A voter is directed how to insert a test ballot into the VCM during the final testing and sealing of the VCM at the Lingayen 1 Central School in Lingayen, supervised by Municipal Election Officer Michael Franks Sarmiento. (Punchphoto by Willie Lomibao)
THE Commission on Elections (Comelec) Pangasinan is 100 percent ready for the conduct of May 9 polls in more than 1,000 polling precincts in the province, the provincial election supervisor assured. Lawyer Joel Gines said the more than 6,000 Board of Election Inspectors, support staff and monitoring workforce, including the…
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