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In last 8 elections, 68 families victors in 6 vote-rich provinces
LOCAL POLITICAL families, not political parties, are important to national politicians as they mobilize electoral support, says political scientist Julio C. Teehankee. National…
By Rowena F Caronan·May 7, 2016
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101 political clans rule polls in top 20-vote rich provinces
THROUGHOUT THE 24 years of elections in the Philippines’s 20 provinces with the most number of registered voters, family names on the ballots seem to keep repeating themselves, the…
By Rowena F Caronan·May 7, 2016