With the 2025 local and national elections right around the corner, some candidates are pulling out all the stops to win—even ...

Filipino Americans will be able to cast their votes online for the first time in the upcoming May 2025 midterm elections.

Philippines – An anti-corruption group on Tuesday, April 8, filed a vote-buying complaint before the Commission on Elections (Comelec) against three candidates running in the 4th District local ...

MANILA, Philippines — Most Filipinos think vote-buying will be rife in the upcoming polls, according to a survey by Octa Research. For this reason, the Commission on Elections (Comelec) has renewed ...

MANILA, Philippines — The Commission on Elections (Comelec) on Tuesday said it was keeping a close watch on how unscrupulous candidates may be using government cash aid programs as a “novel” method of ...

MANILA, Philippines — Vote buying incidents have remained pervasive in the National Capital Region, with the bulk of complaints in the May midterm polls and past elections coming from the NCR ...

MANILA, Philippines — The Commission on Elections ... Maya since the 2023 Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan elections to combat vote-buying. GCash had issued an advisory stating that daily ...

The Commission on Elections ... of vote-buying incidents have been reported. Maceda said the Comelec is working with mobile banking platforms, such as GCash and Maya, as digital vote-buying ...

Under the Philippines' anti ... banking and mobile wallets for vote buying and selling. “The BSP memorandum, similar to memoranda issued in previous election cycles, responds to the call from ...

The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) has instructed financial institutions to enhance their surveillance and monitoring measures to prevent incidents of vote buying and selling ahead of the midterm ...

has urged banks to boost measures against vote-buying and other misuse of funds through digital platforms ahead of this year’s midterm elections. In a memo dated March 23 and uploaded on the BSP ...

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Philippine ex-President Rodrigo Duterte, who left a savage legacy over his deadly anti-drugs crackdown, was arrested on a warrant issued by the International Criminal ...