“OMINOUS” is how former Bukidnon Congressman Neric Acosta, now a senatorial candidate for the Liberal Party, describes the recent declaration of martial law in Maguindanao. The declaration, he says, is “a prelude to fuller state control and manipulation of the 2010 elections.” Together with other developments, such as the “conveniently-timed Supreme Court ruling” declaring it unnecessary for incumbent officials to resign even after they file their certificates of candidacy (such as President Macapagal-Arroyo who is also now a congressional candidate), Acosta says the martial law edict “constitutes a sinister pretext for a sitting president’s continued grip on power, and a sordid cover-up for the failure of the rule of law and justice in the face of state-sponsored warlordism.”

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With reforms and good governance as its campaign battle cry, the ranks of the Liberal Party have grown stronger at the ground level as thousands of new members joined the party and making it the dominant minority party to battle the old behemoth of traditionalist political parties that seek to preserve the corrupt, old system of political patronage and transactional politics in the 2010 national elections, party officials claimed today.

The LP is fielding the formidable presidential and vice presidential tandem of Senators Benigno "Noynoy" Aquino III and Manuel "Mar" Roxas II, a complete "Peoples' Reform" senatorial ticket and a strong local line-up in the 2010 elections.

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The Liberal Party (LP) and Kaya Natin movement slammed the Arroyo administration on Monday for what they called its “vendetta politics" against at least three governors, whose victories in the 2007 local elections are now being subjected to recounting just because “they are LP members."

This after they received reports that the Commission on Election’s (Comelec) second division will rule against Isabela Gov. Grace Padaca and Pampanga Gov. Ed Panililio on the recount cases filed against them by their political rivals in the 2007 polls.