MINDANAO DAILY NEWS AUGUST 20,2012

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Disqualify party-list of elites -watchdog By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO, ulatlat.com

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ANILA — The election watchdog Kontra-Daya and the Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP) have filed a petition with the Commission on Elections (Comelec) calling for the immediate and final disqualification of a number of party-list groups, among them groups led by relatives of President Benigno Aquino III and those of former president Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo.

Leptospirosis Warning! By ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL Bulatlat.com

MANILA – Leptospirosis is among the common yet potentially fatal diseases prevalent during rainy season. The recent monsoon rains that flooded many areas in the country have increased the number of cases of people infected with Leptospirosis. News reports said there are 2,213 reported cases of Leptospirosis as of July 28, 87 percent.

AFP-rebel clashes displace 45,000 By PAT SAMONTE

BUTUAN CIT Y – The United Nations said that fierce fighting between government soldiers and a Muslim rebel group in violence-plagued Southern Philippines had displaced some 45,000 people. An Agence France Presse wire said Arjun Jain, head of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees office in the Philippines said

almost half of the displaced were living in poor conditions in makeshift evacuation camps such as schools and madrassas. Jain said the evacuation sites “are cramped and sometimes eight to 10 families are forced to share one room.” In the wake of reports that rebels had infiltrated the evacuation camps disguised as refugees, he said that “If the communities

will be forced to remain the camps any longer, we fear that the situation will become even worse for them.” Members of the Bangsa Moro Islamic Freedom Fighters (BIFF) attacked eight army detachmentsin the towns of Shariff Aguak, Datu Saudi Ampatuan, Datu Unsay and Guindulungan, all in Maguindanao last week triggering gunbattles that left at least five soldiers AFP/PAGE 11

Troops clash anew with NPA rebels in Zambo province By AL JACINTO

ZAMBOANGA CITY- Government troops killed a still undetermined number of communist rebels in a clash in the southern Philippine province of Zamboanga Sibugay, an army spokesman said Saturday. CLASH/PAGE 11

In the petition, KontraDaya called on the Comelec to disqualify the groups from the party-list elections because they “represent interest antagonistic to the marginalized and underrepresented sectors that the party-list system aspires to empower and protect.” It also called on the commission to investigate a list of other groups, saying that their advocacies, nominees and track records are questionable.

“The nominees of all these groups are disqualified to be nominees because not only are they not representatives of marginalized and underrepresented, but they come from the rich, the powerful and the overrepresented. Many are also disqualified, not just because they are part of powerful economic and political clans but are politicians who ran and lost in the previous elections,” it said. PARTYLIST/PAGE 11

Koko joins LP CAGAYAN DE ORO CITYRe-electionist Senator Aquilino “Koko” Pimentel III has formally accepted Thursday the invitation of President Benigno Aquino III to join the administration’s senatorial line-up for the 2013 midterm elections. “I would like to announce that I have accepted the President’s invitation for me to join and be part of his senatorial ticket for 2013 and I would like to thank the President for inviting me,” Pimentel was quoted in an ABS-CBN News report. “And tulad ng sinabi niya sa akin noon (like what he said to me before), ‘You will always have a home here.’ So I really feel at home and welcome in the President’s

Pimentel

ticket,” he added. In a Rappler report, Pimentel said that he said to Aquino, “Thank you, Mr. President, for inviting me. I would like to tell you I have a debt of gratitude to you because under your term, I obtained justice in KOKO/PAGE 11

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