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Poll body, watchdog gear up for voters education in Muslim communities outside ARMM |
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Wednesday, 16 March 2011 |
QUEZON CITY, Philippines - The Commission on Elections) and a citizen watchdog that is operating in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao have started a voters’ education partnership program intended for Muslim voters who came from the ARMM, but are residing in Metro Manila and other areas outside of the region.
Amid calls to move the constitutionally-set voting in ARMM in August, the Education and Information Department of the Comelec and Citizens Coalition for ARMM Electoral Reform jointly conducted voters’ education on the continuing registration for the electorates coming from the autonomous region but are residing in Muslim communities in Culiat and Tandangsora areas in Quezon City.
Director James Jimenez, of the Comelec’s EID and Jumda Sabaani, chairperson of C-CARE, who were among the speakers in a forum Sunday attended by some 200 electorates, mostly Maguindanaon, Tausog and Maranao, took turns in stressing that “every citizen of the country can only register once.”
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Election reform group Citizens CARE: “Postpone ARMM Elections!” |
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Friday, 11 February 2011 |
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 Jumda at the HOR Hearing on Postponement of ARMM Elections Jan 25 2011 Citizens CARE, the leading election reform advocate in the ARMM called for the postponement of ARMM elections, currently scheduled for August 2011, to be conducted together with the May 2013 national elections. Cites on going irregularities and need to synchronize with the national reform efforts as reasons. Citizens CARE's principled position is that elections should be held regularly and periodically for democracy to function. However, after detailed discussions with ARMM citizens at 'Ugnayan Tayo', local community consultative meetings, the reform group joins the majority of the citizens in calling for a postponement. |
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CITIZENS CARE GEARS UP FOR ITS MEDIA STRATEGY |
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Tuesday, 08 February 2011 |
 Citizens CARE media training Nine Citizens CARE provincial delegates representing its provincial clusters in Tawi-Tawi, Sulu, Basilan, Lanao Sur and Maguindanao, and some members of the board of trustees took part in a one-day media projection training on November 20, 2010 in Davao City. Facilitated by IFES Deputy Chief of Party, Juhani Grossmann, the training sought to help the Citizens CARE media relations team come up with an improved media strategy in light of the Coalition’s active presence as the leading voter education and domestic election monitoring organization in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM). The provincial representatives admitted that Citizens CARE has been very active in advocating for electoral reforms in the ARMM through its voter education activities, election monitoring work and other election-related activities but these were not being documented and recognized accurately. Thus the Coalition decided to conduct the training to maximize the use of media in advancing electoral reform in the Region. |
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