Article V. Section 1. Suffrage may be exercised by all citizens of the Philippines not otherwise disqualified by law, who are at least eighteen years of age, and who shall have resided in the Philippines for at least one year, and in the place wherein they propose to vote, for at least six months immediately preceding the election. No literacy, property, or other substantive requirement shall be imposed on the exercise of suffrage.Election is
The 2010 National Elections considered by many as a successful election and historical for it was the first automated elections in our country. Many also believed that it was not successful because there were places where technical problems and delay of voting time happened. Different issues and stories came up from the beginning of the campaign period up to the Election Day and even the election aftermath.
There were ten presidential candidates and the top candidates were Noynoy Aquino, Manny Villar, Gilbert Teodoro, Joseph Estrada and Dick Gordon. Aquino was the product of people’s demand and the initiative of Mar Roxas to give way and step down. The people anticipated him like his parents who were advocates of democracy and perpetuators of truth, peace and order. When the late president Corazon Aquino died, many pursued and convinced him to follow his parents’ footsteps and run for president. They say he has this “Cory Magic” during the election period. Manny Villar was the standard bearer of the Nacionalista Party. There were many questions about his wealth and excessive television advertisements and also, the controversy in the alleged favoured contract of the C5 extension. It was said other lawmakers who investigated that he (Manny Villar) manipulated the contract to make his land part of the land conversion. There were also issues that he was the real standard bearer of the administration and not Gilbert Teodoro. However, villar’s side denied the issue. Estrada was questioned if he is allowed to run for public office because he was convicted for plunder but due to the presendential pardon which gave him back all his civil and political rights. That means that it is allowable in the constitution for him to run and file his candidacy. Gilbert Teodoro was the said standard bearer of LAKAS – KAMPI CMD, the administration’s political party. However, they seem did not give enough support to Teodoro’s campaign that is why his running mate Edu Manzano backed out. Nevertheless, still he continued the fight. Dick Gordon tied up with Bayani and they call their team as “the transformers” because they promised the the public that they will transform the country into a better one.