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At least 18 ‘obese’ dynasties crowned again. Reform advocates chart next steps for 2028
The elections are over. Voters have crowned again many of the country’s entrenched political dynasties. Despite the results, election reform advocates said the May 2025 polls showed robust resistance ...
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8 years on, Marawi voters remember siege in polls that expand Gandamra family’s rule
Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Eight years after the May 23, 2017 siege of Marawi City, residents voted to further consolidate ...
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12 dynasties lose gubernatorial races, but 71 of 82 provinces still led by political clans
In the next three years, most provinces will remain in the hands of governors who come from political dynasties. By the count of the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism (PCIJ), 71 out of 82 ...
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Aurora is exception in Central Luzon, where many dynasties win unopposed
Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Central Luzon is the second most vote-rich region, but the same political dynasties are able to ...
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Bersamins are back: Interior Cordillera rejects dynasties, but they thrive in Abra, Apayao
The Cordillera region, rooted in indigenous forms of governance, showed in this election that it continues to largely reject political dynasties. This is the case in four of its six provinces — ...
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Dismantling a dynasty: Vico Sotto is redefining local leadership
The author is an Assistant Professor (On Study Leave) at the Department of Political Science, Ateneo de Manila University and is currently taking Ph.D. in Political Science at the Department of ...
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Political clans gain, women lose seats in new BARMM interim government
Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X The leadership shakeup in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) expanded the ...
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Cordillera’s cultural norms push back against political dynasties
Filipinos could only vote in 1907, and only men were allowed to do so. Filipinos in the US were permitted suffrage after World War II in 1946. But the Cordillerans who joined the St. Louis Fair in ...
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I turned a powerful longform story into multimedia with generative AI. Here’s how I did it.
Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Like many readers, I was deeply touched by Columbia University investigative journalism professor ...
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‘Crimes against humanity.’ The violence of Duterte’s drug war — in photos
Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Few photojournalists covered former President Rodrigo Duterte’s bloody campaign against illegal ...
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The Making of Edgar Matobato
Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X IT IS A WONDER Edgar Matobato is still alive. A confessed assassin for the Davao Death Squad, he ...