MANDAUE CITY, Cebu -- It's already 9 p.m. and residents of this thickly populated sitio in a barangay in Mandaue City proper have remained widely awake.Aside from celebrating the annual
MANDAUE CITY, Cebu — It’s already 9 p.m. and residents of this thickly populated sitio in a barangay in Mandaue City proper have remained widely awake.
Aside from celebrating the annual feast of Señor San Jose, the city’s patron saint, most of the residents continue to wait for their share of the ‘brown envelopes’ that were distributed by a political group.Early on Sunday morning, May 8, residents were greeted with crisp P100 bills that were stapled to a blue card from a partylist seeking election on Monday.Recipients of the cash were confident that they would get more later in the day, just like in the 2019 elections.
At about 6 p.m., only very few of the sitio residents received the brown envelope which contained P500. Household leaders got P1,000.“Pila man ang sa pikas?,” one resident asked.And while the group, that was said to have been the source of the brown envelopes is allied with top Cebu officials endorsing the candidacy of a popular presidential candidate, the sample ballots that were attached to these envelopes did not include the name of any presidential or vice presidential candidates.
Senatorial candidates, whose names were also shaded on the sample ballot, came from different parties.RELATED STORIES
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