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You Are Here:Home → 2021 → May → 7 → Electoral protest vs. progressive youth partylist dismissed Electoral protest vs. progressive youth partylist dismissed Kabataan Party Rep. Sarah Elago (Photo by Gino Estella/Bulatlat) SC Associate Justice Marvic Leonen said that it is “best for this tribunal to decline this importuning for a fishing expedition and dismiss the present Protest.” By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO MANILA – The House of Representatives Electoral Tribunal dismissed the election protest lodged against progressive Kabataan Partylist in a decision dated March 1...

Published May 7, 2021, 1:49 PM The House of Representatives Electoral Tribunal has junked the electoral protest filed against the progressive Kabataan Partylist, represented in the Lower House by Rep. Sarah Jane Elago. In a resolution penned by Supreme Court Associate Justice Rosemari Carandang, the HRET, composed of three SC justices and five congressmen, dismissed the election protest filed by the You Against Corruption and Poverty (YACAP) through its chairperson and first nominee, former Rep. Carol Jayne Lopez. Lopez assailed the alleged presence of “electoral fraud, anomalies and irregu...

May 4, 2021 Unions Gather Outside House of Culture While members were out in the streets protesting, their leaders were behind closed doors preparing for a mid-afternoon meeting with government representatives. That meeting began at one-thirty p.m. inside the House of Culture Compound in Belize City.  News Five’s Paul Lopez was there and files the following report.   Paul Lopez, Reporting This afternoon, the symbol of Union Solidarity was marked by Union Leaders joining hands at the House of Culture’s gates. A mass of union members cheered on their leaders who were moments away...

According to Elpideo Mutemba, the advocacy coordinator of the Khulumani anti-corruption project, the picket and the press conference took place in Pretoria because, in Mozambique, “there’s no freedom of speech. We can’t demonstrate and talk there.”  The picket successfully drew attention to continued delays in the decision of South Africa’s Minister of Justice and Constitutional Development, Ronald Lamola, regarding the extradition of Mozambique’s former finance minister, Manuel Chang, to stand trial for corruption – either in the United States or in Mozambique. Adriano Nuvunga...

Business leaders and civil society urge UN to take meaningful action to combat corruption News • Paris, 03/05/2021 ICC and Integrity Initiatives International press for stronger enforcement of anti-corruption laws. The International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) and Integrity Initiatives International (III), along with 96 civil society organizations from over 50 countries, have called on the UN General Assembly to establish an intergovernmental working group to develop proposals for new frameworks and mechanisms to address weaknesses in current international anti-corruption l...