- Philippine National Police (PNP) spokesman Superintendent John Bulalacao announced on Monday that from the beginning of the legislature to the May 14 Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan (SK) elections, from April 14 to May 14 at 15:00, there were a total of 35 election-related dead. - klajoo.com - Out of a total of 47 incidents, there were 36 shootings, two arson attacks and two abductions, as well as one harassment, severe threats, intimidation, shelling, ambush, illegal detention and shelling. Of the 35 dead, there were 18 elected Barangay officials, five candidates, three former Barangay officials, three supporters and six civilians. Bulalacao says there were 126 suspects in all, of which 29 have been identified and 84 unknown who are all still on the run. Six suspects were arrested and nine were released, says Bulalacao. A total of 181,212 police officers in 73,462 polling stations were deployed to the elections. EPD 15.05.2018 - 2:24
How do they determine what an "election-related" death is? Also, what is "shelling"? Someone is launching mortars/rockets at politicians/voting stations? Or does this mean shelling out cash for votes? (I know there were many more than 47 cases of that happening. One Barangay Captain in Dumaguete was giving out P1700 per vote....all his competitors were giving out money for votes as well, though much less than that. I don't think they really want to put a stop to that activity. Would be very easy to catch politicians doing that as they have collection points set up for people to come and get their money and everyone is quite open about how much they were paid.)
