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Date Branch Department Party People Involved Summary Source 1946 Executive: Office of the President: Liberal: Manuel Roxas: Surplus War Property scandal- disposed $90 billion of surplus war property held by the United States government in the final year of World War II, which caused a huge corruption scandal that led to the rise of the leftist HUKBALAHAP and for Roxas's approval ratings to ...
The FMLN's candidate in the 21 March 2004 presidential election, Schafik Hándal, won 35.6% of the vote, but was defeated by Antonio Saca of ARENA. In the 2006 legislative election , held on 12 March 2006, the FMLN won 39.7% of the popular vote and 32 out of 84 legislative assembly seats.
Researchers have proposed that corruption and poor governance as among the causes of poverty in the Philippines. [5] The Philippines signed the United Nations Convention against Corruption on December 9, 2003, with the Senate ratifying the convention on November 6, 2006. In 2012, the Senate declared that National Anticorruption Day shall be ...
The Philippine Truth Commission was created to find out the truth about reports of large scale graft and corruption in the previous government; to put a closure to them by the filing of the appropriate cases against those who were involved. Furthermore, to deter others from committing such crimes and to restore the people's faith and confidence ...
United States military scandals in the Philippines (1 C, 6 P) Pages in category "Political scandals in the Philippines" The following 26 pages are in this category, out of 26 total.
In August 2023, Flores stated that both he and the FMLN would be committed to fighting corruption. [21] In the election, Flores finished in second place with 204,167 votes—6.40 percent; Bukele won re-election with 84.65 percent of the vote. [22] Flores refused to concede the election, claiming that "they stole votes from me" ("me han robado ...
The DeWine-Husted Administration has long been criticized for employing former FirstEnergy lobbyists while at the same time taking significant amounts of campaign money from the company.
The 2011 Armed Forces of the Philippines corruption scandal, also known as the " pabaon scandal", was a political scandal involving the alleged misuse of military funds by high-ranking members of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP). The pabaon system referred to a practice of giving millions of pesos to chiefs of staff when they retire. [1]