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THE DAY AFTER ELECTIONS 🇵🇭

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#PHVote #WeDecide

.@maracepeda gives a recap of VP Leni Robredo's message to her supporters.

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@maracepeda .@maracepeda describes the atmosphere in Robredo's house last night: "The people there were dejected. They really wanted her to win." #PHVote #WeDecide

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@maracepeda .@maracepeda says Robredo must have long accepted how difficult it will be to beat the well-oiled machinery of the Marcos campaign. #PHVote #WeDecide

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@maracepeda .@maracepeda says Robredo's camp will hold at least 2 'pasasalamat' events in Naga City and somewhere in Manila on Friday. #PHVote #WeDecide

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@maracepeda .@maracepeda: Perhaps we might see Robredo joining NGOs or joining some movement. But we will see in the coming weeks what role VP Leni would be playing. #PHVote #WeDecide

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@maracepeda To summarize the current state of affairs, @mariaressa quotes Czech writer Milan Kundera, "The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting." #PHVote #WeDecide

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@maracepeda @mariaressa .@mariaressa: Technology, social media...allowed the lies to become facts. Bongbong Marcos was one of the first adapters in Youtube in terms of how to engage. #PHVote #WeDecide

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@maracepeda @mariaressa .@mariaressa talks about the Marcoses' networked propaganda that aimed to create a new reality online, describes this phenomenon as 'democracy's death by a thousand cuts.' #PHVote #WeDecide

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@maracepeda @mariaressa .@mariaressa: Where we go, the world goes. There are 32 elections globally this year. After us, you have Kenya in August. #PHVote #WeDecide

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@maracepeda @mariaressa .@mariaressa: Did we have integrity of elections? Did we have freewill? #PHVote #WeDecide

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@maracepeda @mariaressa Pulse Asia President Ronald Holmes: Essentially the voters have been able to distill all of this disinformation and the positive message of Marcos may have actually resonated more than the message of other candidates. #PHVote #WeDecide

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@maracepeda @mariaressa UP Department of Broadcast Communication instructor Ivy Claudio: [The Marcosian golden age is] a very good anchor in terms of messaging, in calls of how do we move forward. #PHVote #WeDecide

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@maracepeda @mariaressa Former Palace spox Edwin Lacierda says Google Trends is 'sentiment agnostic,' as compared to surveys that ask direct questions. #PHVote #WeDecide

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@maracepeda @mariaressa Lacierda says surveys had been reliable for the past campaigns he was involved with before: "Ang labanan lang 'yung sa dulo." #PHVote #WeDecide

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@maracepeda @mariaressa Lacierda says it was frustrating to see the public turning their attention to Google Trends when the focus should have been on the work necessary to make survey numbers increase. #PHVote #WeDecide

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@maracepeda @mariaressa Lacierda: In 2015, we were the administration party. Remember, she was just a VP candidate. She was thriving on coattails of Mar and the Liberal Party.

In 2021, when she made the decision...it was really the volunteers who wanted her to run. #PHVote

@maracepeda @mariaressa Robredo's leadership was not highlighted in the campaign, says Lacierda. There was a crisis in leadership and "that was the best time to promote her." #PHVote #WeDecide

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@maracepeda @mariaressa Messaging was also 'quite late in the game,' notes Lacierda.

"The downside was there were so many messages coming from the volunteers." #PHVote #WeDecide

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Lacierda: We were running against time. Time was our enemy in this campaign. #PHVote #WeDecide

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Human Rights Watch researcher Carlos Conde: We put little attention to truth-telling, truth-seeking. It's also recently that we have the Martial Law Museum. There is no consistent effort to try to educate the public about our past. #PHVote

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Conde says human rights have "been so degraded by the President himself" the past 6 years. #PHVote

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Conde: It's always been my thesis, since 1986 up to the present, the human rights movement have been so...they lack the vision to be more inclusive. #PHVote #WeDecide

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Claudio: We have to talk about how we are going to teach this to our students. We've seen in this campaign [that we should] make the message, facts resonate to young people. You cannot do this in traditional forms anymore. #PHVote

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Claudio: It's also scary for us young people. The environment that the kids have during Duterte and now...it's very unsure. Ang daming kailangang ayusin. Our students – they're really afraid. #PHVote #WeDecide

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.@lianbuan reports from Ilocos Norte.

"It's quiet here at the city center of Laoag. Bongbong Marcos was their governor for 3 terms...pero wala pa, no sign of celebration." #PHVote #WeDecide

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@lianbuan .@lianbuan: Team Marcos dominated and extended to the cousin kahit hindi siya Marcos candidate. #PHVote #WeDecide

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.@lianbuan: Up until the last minute there was a sense of split sentiment in Ilocos Norte kasi parehong beloved ang Marcos family and Fariñas family. #PHVote #WeDecide

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@lianbuan .@jcpunongbayan: To what extent will [democratic] institutions be eroded?

Conde says institutions were already exploited way back 2016 under the Duterte administration, refers to the drug war as an example and how the police played a role.

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@lianbuan @jcpunongbayan Lacierda: We live under the illusion that our democracy is a fully-functioning democracy similar to American democracy.... The power is very centric to the executive branch. #PHVote #WeDecide

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@lianbuan @jcpunongbayan Lacierda: The Constitution was a response to the excesses of Martial Law. A Marcos presidency...what would it do to the 1987 Constitution? Will he try to amend the Constitution? #PHVote #WeDecide

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@lianbuan @jcpunongbayan Lacierda: You can have the suppression of basic constitutional rights but without doing it so blatantly as in 1972. Because of technology, you can do it quietly, stealthily. You don't realize that there's a narrowing already of democracy. #PHVote

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@lianbuan @jcpunongbayan .@ramboreports reports from Uniteam headquarters in Mandaluyong. #PHVote #WeDecide

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@lianbuan @jcpunongbayan @ramboreports .@ramboreports says Uniteam supporters in the area believe the 'other camp' and the media are brainwashed, not them. #PHVote #WeDecide

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@lianbuan @jcpunongbayan @ramboreports .@ramboreports describes the mood last night at the headquarters: Wala kang makikitang taong nakasimangot. Tuwang-tuwa, nakatingin sa cellphone tinitingnan ang resulta. #PHVote #WeDecide

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.@ramboreports on Ferdinand Marcos Jr's short speech of gratitude to supporters: "It's really short of a victory speech. Pero gusto niya official ang count. Sabi niya, bantayan ang boto." #PHVote #WeDecide

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@ramboreports Judy Pasimio of Lilak, Jefferson Chua of Greenpeace, and Jio Guiang of ABKD join the Community Corner of the panel discussion.

They talk about how sectors, networks are affected under a Marcos presidency.

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