DATA ADVISORS POLL THE numbers say it all. Board Member Amado Espino III and incumbent Gov. Amado T. Espino, Jr. are poised to score double victories on May 9 amid charges and counter-charges of unprecedented vote-buying operations allegedly being undertaken for the past two weeks by the opposite camps throughout…

FOR BINGO FIVE candidates for councilors in Dagupan City, three with the Nacionalista Party (NP) and two independent, face possible disqualification in a complaint filed by a taxpayer before the City Elections Office. The 13-page complaint filed by Florence Claveria of Barangay Lasip Chico in the city charged incumbent Councilors Redford Christian Erfe Mejia…

RISKS OF VIOLENCE THE presence of 33 criminal gangs and two private armies were among the risk factors considered by the higher office of the Philippine National Police (PNP) in placing Pangasinan as one of the nine provinces in the whole country under the election watch list. This was bared…

TO ensure that this year’s election will be peaceful, some 4,000 uniformed personnel from the police, military and force multipliers will be deployed in the province’s 44 towns and four cities. P/Supt. Ferdinand de Asis, spokesperson of the Pangasinan Police Provincial Office (PPPO), told the KBP Forum here that 2,000…

USAPANG KAPAYAPAAN IF the four congressional candidates who attended the “Usapang Kapayapaan”, a forum for congressional candidates held on April 26, are successful in their bid, they will reject the passage of the Bangsamoro Basic Law and will support instead the establishment of a federalism type of government in the…

THE number of towns in Pangasinan placed under the election watch list is now down to 16 from the previous 20 last month, the Provincial Elections Office (PEO) reported. In the list are Bayambang, San Carlos City, Urbiztondo, Malasiqui, Bugallon, Infanta, Manaoag, Rosales, Urdaneta, Basista, Agno, Calasiao, Lingayen, Binmaley, Sison, Alaminos City…

AN official of Greenpeace Philippines slammed a pending proposal of former Fifth District Rep. Mark Cojuangco seeking the restoration and rehabilitation of the mothballed Bataan Nuclear Power Plant  (BNPP) and eventually the “nuclearization” of the whole country. Mr. Cojuangco filed a bill seeking the revival of the BNPP plan of the Marcos regime…

THE Archdiocese of Lingayen-Dagupan (ALD) through the Parish Pastoral Council for Responsible Voting (PPCRV), parishioners, police, Commission on Elections and some candidates joined hands to echo the CHAMP (clean honest, accurate, meaningful and peaceful) 2016 message through a unity walk in Dagupan yesterday. Before the unity walk for CHAMP 2016, a…

EARLY VOTE-BUYING? LINGAYEN— Governor Amado Espino Jr. told the Pangasinan voters to accept the money reportedly being distributed by his political opponents in return for the voter’s details. “Tanggapin po ninyo ang mga perang ‘yan. Hindi po nila pera ‘yan, coconut levy at excise tax ‘yan,” remarked Espino reacting to…

OPERATION One-Time, Big Time Baklas waged by the Commission on Elections in Dagupan has spared no one, not even the yellow flyers and tarpaulins of administration candidates Mar Roxas and Leni Robredo hanging on both sides of Quintos Bridge. The personnel of the city engineering office, who were mobilized by…