‘2016 elections credible’

THE automated 2016 synchronized national and local elections, despite some shortcomings, were by far most credible and peaceful, far better than the past two automated polls held in 2010 and 2013, according to an independent international and strategic research organization.

But political analyst Ramon Casiple, chairman, Consortium on Electoral Reforms, pointed out on Friday that findings of Stratbase ADR Institute (Stratbasse) would not affect former senator Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos’ protest against results of the vice presidential elections, now pending before the Presidential Electoral Tribunal (PET).