Word: unidos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...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 not be in until this week, but according to NAMFREL's estimate last Saturday, opposition parties...
...dominated election commission has decided that in 101 of the 200 constituencies, that role should be played by an obscure pro-government party. Thus, opposition leaders claim, the government would in effect be assured of victory in the majority of seats. Outfoxed yet again and outraged, the opposition coalition, UNIDO, has now refused to run unless it is soon named "dominant opposition party" instead. "Marcos," says Opposition Official Linggoy Alcuaz, "has given us enough concessions to divide...
...against a peaceful transition to post-Marcos democracy had tragically lengthened. Deprived of their most visible leader, the President's moderate opponents called for Marcos' resignation and for the formation of a caretaker government prior to national elections. The moderates, however, grouped in an umbrella organization called UNIDO (United Nationalist Democratic Organization), stopped short of calling for a boycott of parliamentary elections scheduled for next year...