DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/02 November) – President Arroyo has named Moslemen Macarambon, Sr., to the Commission on Election, to fill in one of two seats vacated by Mehol Sadain and resigned Comelec chair Benjamin Abalos.

Macarambon, whose curriculum vitae shows he served as executive assistant of the Senate Electoral Tribunal from 1988 to 1989 and was appointed by President Arroyo as presiding judge of the Regional Trial Court in Iligan City on October 3, 2003, was not on the shortlist Malacanang submitted earlier for the poll body for comment.

MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/29 July) -- Genuine Opposition senatorial candidate Aquilino “Koko” Pimentel III will formally file Monday a formal complaint with the Senate  Electoral Tribunal (SET) questioning the proclamation of Juan Miguel  Zubiri as the 12th winning senatorial candidate.