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                    [Title] => EDITORIAL - Ready for the ARMM elections?
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Over a million people in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao are expected to cast their votes today for a new governor and members of their 24-seat assembly. Will the true choices of the voters be known? That question must be asked as the ARMM polls will be the first electoral exercise to be supervised by the Commission on Elections since serious allegations of vote rigging were hurled against President Arroyo and Comelec officials.

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The independence of the co-equal branches of government are very clearly defined in our Constitution and is a long-held tradition in democratic systems. Anybody who is a part of this system submits to such a system.
[DatePublished] => 2005-06-24 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 136063 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1382205 [AuthorName] => Jerry Tundag [SectionName] => Freeman Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 282915 [Title] => EDITORIAL - Bangon Sugbo [Summary] => We are bothered by the fact that everything seems so quiet in Cebu in the wake of the accusations by the opposition that, as supposedly evidenced by wiretapped conversations between President Arroyo and Comelec commissioner Virgilio Garciliano, the 2004 elections were rigged. [DatePublished] => 2005-06-21 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Freeman Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) ) )
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Over a million people in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao are expected to cast their votes today for a new governor and members of their 24-seat assembly. Will the true choices of the voters be known? That question must be asked as the ARMM polls will be the first electoral exercise to be supervised by the Commission on Elections since serious allegations of vote rigging were hurled against President Arroyo and Comelec officials.

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The independence of the co-equal branches of government are very clearly defined in our Constitution and is a long-held tradition in democratic systems. Anybody who is a part of this system submits to such a system.
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