GENUINE Opposition candidates Loren Legarda
and Allan Peter Cayetano on Wednesday night said the "cheating
machinery" is in place in the Visayas and Mindanao to ensure the
victory of Team Unity.
Cayetano told 3,000 to 4,000 supporters in
Dasmariñas, Cavite, that he received reports that the machinery
used to cheat in 2004 is intact.
Legarda said a vilification campaign through
text messages and the internet has been re-launched against her.
She said the messages claimed she filed a
bill at the 12
Congress blocking salary increases for teachers.
"Obviously there’s no such a bill. Yung
inimbento nila nung 2004, they’re recycling it now," she said.
Cayetano said Malacañang has been meeting
with local government units and "they’ve been putting up
parallel groups just like what they did in 2004."
He also said the administration has put up a
"bonus system" for those who could deliver votes for TU
candidates.
"Iba iba yung bonus level, yung actual
amounts di pa namin nalalaman… like for example, sa local
ginagawa yan per precinct, per barangay… Kunwari may P500 per
mayor or vice mayor, parang ganun yung style but in a much
bigger basis nationwide," he said.
"Ang kanilang ginawang bonus system ay usual
sa local pero first time ko narinig sa national," he said. "Una
yung 12-0. Pag nag 12-0 may bonus sila sa area nila."
He said there is a second bonus for a 9-3
victory in favor of the TU candidates.
"Then the last yung pag ako yung dinaya," he
said but did not elaborate.
He said GO has been reviewing fund releases
by Malacañang since January until the first week of March.
"We’ve found out na maraming pondong nailalabas para
ilalaglag ang mga oposisyon. We consider that cheating because
the use of government funds to campaign for a certain group is
cheating," he said. – JP Lopez
