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on 19-05-2007 00:00
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Pagadian City – Re-electionist Congressman Isidoro E.. Real Jr. of the 1st District of Zamboanga del Sur showed dismay in the turn out of the May 14 Poll after alleged massive cheating was found out in the early voting hours.
Together with his Board Members party mates of the Lakas-CMD Party cried foul and disgusted in a press conference this week after they found out that their opponent implemented the most dirtiest  election so far in the history of Zamboanga del Sur. “I am very disgusted and dismayed of the cheating in this election” Congressman Real said. However the representative of the 1st District conceded after..”I admit that I lost from this election not because of the reason that the people of my district did not like me anymore it is not their mandate, but , I lost because of the reason of massive vote buying, harassment, and intimidation. “I never thought of any kind of cheating but they made it right infront of the people”, he adds. Accordingly, the allege massive cheating was done in an inhuman manner, “Murag gilaparo sa maong nagpauso niadtong nga klasi sa pagpanikas sa eleksyon” Real said in the vernacular. The said cheating was found out after the early polls started when the allege mechanism using the paper board fan with TU senatorial candidates, but some of the voters did not know that, this fans will be their passage to be given another envelope of the promised amount if they will vote straight. In between the said paper board fan was a carbonized paper that will reflect what they right on the ballots, said paper board fan are used by the voter as a pad for their ballots when they right. And after voting they will be bring this to their PL (precincts) Leaders or Purok Leaders to show what they had written and if they will be voting straight, that’s the time they will receive the next envelope of which a bigger amount will be received by them. “After I received the news I thought to myself that this will be the first time that I will lose” Real said. If we may recall, Congressman Real started his political career winning all of the time, 3 terms as a Governor of Zamboanga del Sur, served as congressman for two terms until this dirtiest election I experience.” He said.  Meanwhile, Reelectionist BM Dinah Marasigan who had been consistent to become No. 1 in the BoardMembership and BM Tete Real-Cipriano who place second on surveys, and even in the campaign trail showed dismayed. “I was cheated” Dinah said. With the same reason, Dinah expressed her to what had happen to the media after the May 14 allege massive vote buying thru the paper board fan. “ When I heard the news, I even myself go out of my own way confiscating the said paraphernalia’s, but to no avail. They succeeded, and to those who sold their votes they deserve to have their leaders.” Dinah quips. Tetet Real-Cipriano also expressed the same feeling of her co-party mates, “Sayang nga e!, isang carbonized paper lang pala tayo”(in the vernacular). Nakandahirap tayo sa kampanya tapos ganito lang mangyari sa atin? What a disgust! Tetet said. In the latest unofficial partial report garnered in Pagadian City, 495 precincts out of 505 precincts with a registered voters of 102, 222, Real garnered only 21,593 votes while his opponent Engr Victor Yu of the NPC-Kampi got 37,665 votes. While Dinah who had been No 1 during the 2004 election, only gathered 19, 629votes (partial unofficial) and Tete got 11, 915 votes(partial unofficial) of the 495 precincts Last update : 03-10-2007 08:32
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