Press Statement
July 10, 2010

Kontra Daya welcomes the decision of the Commission on Elections First Division granting the petition to disqualify the nominees of Ang Kasangga Partylist Teodorico Haresco and Eugenio Jose Lacson. The petition was filed by members of Kontra Daya including Bayan secretary general Renato Reyes, Jr. ACT vice-chair Benjie Valbuena, Courage chair Ferdie Gaite, Migrante chair Gary Martinez, Anakbayan chair Ken Ramos and SCMP chair Ma. Cristina Guevarra last March 31. The petitioners were represented by Atty. Julius Matibag of the National Union of People’s Lawyers.

The anti-fraud group Kontra Daya today said the Commission on Elections (Comelec) should avoid making further delays in the investigation of the poll body’s scrapped P689.7-million ballot secrecy folder deal with OTC Paper Supply.

The Comelec almost purchased 1.8 million ballot secrecy folders at P380 each from OTC Paper Supply. The contract aroused controversy and eventually, [...]

The party-list group Batang Iwas Droga (BIDA), founded by former Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corporation (Pagcor) chief Efraim Genuino and which fielded Genuino’s daughter Sheryl Genuino-See as its first nominee during the May elections, received funds from the government gaming agency, documents show. This, the anti-fraud group Kontra Daya said, boosts its position that BIDA [...]

The anti-fraud and election monitoring group Kontra Daya today said the problems with the ultraviolet (UV) marks on the ballots to be used in the country’s first automated elections could create confusion for voters, as well as lead to disenfranchisement, and for this Smartmatic-TIM should be taken to task. Kontra Daya also called on the [...]

The partylist group currently being represented by the sister of First Gentleman Jose Miguel Arroyo counts among its nominees multi-millionaires, government appointees and influential people, according to a study mady by the Bagong Alyansang Makabayan and the watchdog group Kontra Daya.

The partylist group Ang Kasangga, currently represented in Congress by Arroyo sister Ma. Lourdes Arroyo, [...]

The Commission on Elections has the continuing obligation to screen partylist nominees especially if there are continuing violations of the law, according to the watchdog group Kontra Daya.

“The Comelec has the has the continuing power and the duty to defend the partylist system at any time from the onslaught of those who seek to abuse [...]

A convenor of the anti-fraud group Kontra Daya today decried what she called double standards in the Comelec’s accreditation of partylist groups and nominees. The criticism came in the light of news that Pampanga Congressman Mikey Arroyo and other politicians have joined the partylist system.