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NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Philippine general election, 1969 (868 words) |
 | PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES Ferdinand Marcos Ferdinand Edralin Marcos (September 11, 1917 – September 28, 1989) was the tenth President of the Republic of the Philippines. |
 | In the legislative elections, voters elected twelve Senators (half the members of the Senate), who are elected at large with the whole country voting as one constituency, and all 208 members of the House of Representatives, who are elected from single-member districts. |
 | The contents of the tape allegedly proves, according to Ong, that the 2004 national election was rigged by Arroyo and that she is not the real winner of the said election. |
| NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Spanish general elections (342 words) |
 | Although a week before the election most opinion polls said that the Popular Party would win (the publication of polls is prohibited in Spain during the week leading up to the election), they seem to have suffered from the way it managed the crisis initiated by the attacks. |
 | The channels justified their choice in a communication to the Spanish press agency EFE by saying that it "was a criticism of terrorism and a tribute to the victims"; they declared they had wanted to express their feeling against terrorism "whoever had been behind that attacks". |
 | A safe, unbiased observer of Spanish political life and strongly symbolic of the country's unity can be found in King Juan Carlos who declared before the results were announced that these general elections were an unprecedented event in the country's history. |