It's that time of the year again with another election and another time for people who don't get their way to be extremely condescending to those who actually live in the country.
NY Times article (archived)
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While it's not a big presidential election, it's actually only for about half the Philippine Senate, people on Twitter are acting like the Philippines have chosen to sink their own island and treating their voting with disdain.
Here's a nice example of how people are reacting:
People very happy with the voting behavior as seen. If you want to see more of it, this trending tag is the way to go.
Of the votes, currently this is a good idea of what it looks like:
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Nacionalista are the old, conservative party while the Partido Demokratiko Pilipino is the party that Duterte is a part of. As it can be seen, Filipino's are mostly voting for right wing candidates, which shows that despite what the media and people on social media want to think, Filipino's would rather keep up the right wing charge. And left wingers round the world are now holding tantrums because of it and the fact that Filipinos are refusing to accept their conditioning that they know better than them about their own country.
NY Times article (archived)
In Philippines Senate Elections, Duterte Sees Chance to Consolidate P…
archived 13 May 2019 05:45:48 UTC
MANILA — Millions of Filipinos began voting Monday to choose half of the nation’s Senate in what is widely seen as a proxy battle between President Rodrigo Duterte and politicians opposed to his deadly war on drugs.
Just hours after polls opened at 6 a.m., the police reported scattered incidents of violence and voter intimidation. On Sunday night, the eve of voting, two explosions hit town halls in the southern province of Maguindanao, where warlords have traditionally vied for control. There were no reported casualties.
Nearly 300,000 police officers and members of the armed forces have been deployed nationwide to prevent violence, with the national police reporting that at least 20 people had been killed and 24 injured in election-related attacks in the weeks running up to the voting.
Mr. Duterte was expected to vote in his hometown, Davao City, on Monday afternoon. He spent the last few days campaigning for Senate candidates supportive of his agenda, vowing to push forward with an antidrug crackdown that has left thousands dead.
At one of his last campaign stops on Friday, he took aim at what he characterized as a political elite that wants him out because he is an outsider, and he rebuffed criticism of his antidrug crackdown.
“I’m not the one who gives orders,” he said in countering accusations that he is the force behind the extrajudicial killings of drug suspects. “I would just tell you to arrest them and if they don’t surrender, kill them. But arrest them all and destroy the organization of drugs.”
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Campaign posters in Quezon City on Sunday. At least 20 people have been killed in election-related attacks in run-up to the election.CreditEzra Acayan/Getty Images
Analysts say Mr. Duterte is not pulling any punches for Monday’s elections, and wants to fill the 12 seats up for grabs in the 24-member Senate with allies who will not hinder his legislative agenda. Chief among his goals is revising the country’s Constitution to effectively lift term limits. He is also backing legislation to lower the age of criminal liability of child offenders as well as bring back the death penalty for some serious crimes.
The Senate is seen as one of the last bulwarks against his increasingly authoritarian rule, but with the opposition struggling, his foes fear that Monday’s voting will help him consolidate his power and push through his agenda.
Ramon Casiple, head of the Institute for Political and Electoral Reform, said a victory by Mr. Duterte’s allies on Monday “would spell a continuity of his political agenda and strengthening of his hold on power.”
He said the candidacies of key Duterte allies, including his one-time personal aide, Bong Go, and Ronald dela Rosa, the police chief, could be propelled by Mr. Duterte’s popularity, noting that various surveys have said that a majority of the country’s population still backed the president and turned a blind eye on the excesses of his drugs crackdown.
“That Duterte continues to enjoy an unprecedented 80 percent popularity after three years speaks of his understanding of the reality on the ground, specifically of the yearning of the vast sections of the poor,” Mr. Casiple said.
Monday elections are taking place at the midpoint of Mr. Duterte’s six-year term. And unlike the House of Representatives, which has supported Mr. Duterte’s war on drugs and other policies, the Senate has been seen as more independent. Six members of the opposition are in the minority bloc, while the rest are allied with the president.
The opposition has already been weakened, with one member, Senator Leila de Lima, in jail for what she says are trumped-up charges, and another critic, Antonio Trillanes, not seeking re-election.
Meanwhile, the nation’s police chief, Oscar Albayalde, cited widespread reports of cheating.
“We are seeing a massive increase in vote buying,” he said, adding that since voting began Monday, more than 230 people had been arrested.
While it's not a big presidential election, it's actually only for about half the Philippine Senate, people on Twitter are acting like the Philippines have chosen to sink their own island and treating their voting with disdain.
Here's a nice example of how people are reacting:
People very happy with the voting behavior as seen. If you want to see more of it, this trending tag is the way to go.
Of the votes, currently this is a good idea of what it looks like:
#PHVote 2019: Senatorial Race
This page shows the candidates for the 2019 senatorial elections. Bookmark this page to see partial, unofficial, real-time election results from the Comelec media server after polls close on May 13. Click the names of the candidates to access their profiles.
Nacionalista are the old, conservative party while the Partido Demokratiko Pilipino is the party that Duterte is a part of. As it can be seen, Filipino's are mostly voting for right wing candidates, which shows that despite what the media and people on social media want to think, Filipino's would rather keep up the right wing charge. And left wingers round the world are now holding tantrums because of it and the fact that Filipinos are refusing to accept their conditioning that they know better than them about their own country.
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