The anti-fraud group Kontra Daya today warned of the impending return to power of hard-core Arroyo allies through defections to the new ruling party, the Liberal Party.

“Members of former President and incoming Pampanga Rep. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo’s Lakas-Kampi coalition, who arrogantly blocked any opposition to the Arroyo administration when they were in power, are surreptitiously transferring [...]

The anti-fraud group Kontra Daya has received information on fraud committed during the May 10 elections in one of the island municipalities in Basilan.

The area is a recently created municipality with no electricity and with weak cellular phone signals.

According to Kontra Daya, the information came in the form of affidavits executed by members of the [...]

Several party-list groups that either have links to President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo or have questionable qualifications or nominees are among those likely to get seats in the House of Representatives, according to the election monitoring group Kontra Daya.

The Kontra Daya campaign group today denounced the Commission on Elections (Comelec) for dismissing the disqualification cases filed against presidential son and Pampanga Rep. Juan Miguel “Mikey” Arroyo, who is the first nominee of Ang Galing Pinoy Partylist (AG).

A number of groups have sought Arroyo’s disqualification from the party-list race, arguing that he is not [...]

by Prof. Giovanni Tapang, PhD
With the May 2010 presidetial elections coming in only two months, citizens groups have raised their concerns regarding the conduct of the first nationwide automation of our elections. Groups such as the anti-fraud and election monitoring group Kontra Daya have called on the Commission on Elections (Comelec) to “walk the talk” [...]

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Updated Kontra Daya partylist monitoring matrix as of April 8

The anti-fraud and election monitoring group Kontra Daya today said that people’s vigilance is the proper response to a possible failure of elections.

Kontra Daya convener Fr. Joe Dizon made this statement following the release of a report by the think-tank Pacific Strategies and Assessments (PSA), which found 14 “danger signs” that the May 2010 elections [...]

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Here’s Kontra Daya’s initial list of partylists with questionable nominees. This is only a partial list. Expect a more complete study in the coming week.

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Here is the partial and unofficial list of partylist nominees from the Comelec. Help us spot the questionable and ineligible nominees from among the hundreds of names. If you can identify them please send send a report to kontradaya@gmail.com and we will see if we can include your report in the letter we will submit to Comelec asking it to enforce the law and disqualify the ineligible nominees.

Let’s not allow GMA and other interest groups to further undermine the partylist system that is meant to serve the marginalized and underrepresented.