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...Free Elections (NAMFREL) and prompted by long-pent-up frustration with the autocratic government of President Ferdinand Marcos, voters delivered a stunning message: they were ready for change and prepared to fight for it. Before the election, the President had publicly prophesied a routine landslide victory for his Kilusang Bagong Lipunan (K.B.L.), or New Society Movement. Even the opposition umbrella group known as UNIDO (United Nationalist Democratic Organization) had prudently set its sights no higher than raising the number of opposition seats in the 200-member Batasang Pambansa (National Assembly) from 14 to 30. Final results will...
Thus did the well-oiled Marcos machine launch the election campaign of its Kilusang Bagong Lipunan (K.B.L.) Party. But the elections to be held on May 14 seem unlikely to be conducted in the hollow style to which the island republic is accustomed: for the first time since Marcos declared martial law in 1972, the Philippines has a free, frank opposition to the government. The shocking, still unresolved assassination of exiled Opposition Leader Benigno ("Ninoy") Aquino last August has succeeded in reawakening a long-silent populace and galvanizing the opposition. Now the anti-Marcos forces have high hopes of increasing...
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