The Commission on Election (COMELEC) yesterday proclaimed twenty-eight (28) winning Partylist organization of the recently concluded 2010 automated elections. These 28 Party-list organizations were among the more than 150 Partylist groups who participated in the last election.

The following are the 28 winning party-list organizations with the total number of votes garnered and number of congressional seats:

The two chambers of congress will start convening themselves as Presidential Electoral Tribunal that will canvas the votes for the positions of President and Vice-President. This is despite the allegations of massive electoral fraud being aired by losing candidates on the recently held May 10 national election.

Nine members from each houses of congress will form part of the Presidential Electoral Tribunal, the House panels is composed of House Speaker Prospero Nograles, Majority Leader Arthur Defensor, Minority Leader Ronaldo Zamora, Senior Deputy Majority Leader Neptali Gonzales II, Senior Deputy Minority Leader Roilo Golez, Reps. Crispin Remulla (Cavite), Didagen Dilangalen (Shariff Kabunsuan with Cotabato City), and Matias Defensor (Quezon City), and Michael John Duavit (Rizal).

The Commission on Election proclaimed the 12 winning Senators of the recently held national election. Nine Senators were initially proclaimed on Saturday, May 15, 2010 while the last 3 were proclaimed earlier today.

Of the 12 Senators, 6 were re-electionists, 4 are returning senators and 2 are new to the senate who were both former congressmen. The complete list of the 12 winning senators are (according to vote ranking):

Re-electionists senators Ramon ‘Bong’ Revilla, Jr. and Jinggoy Estrada tops the latest Pulse Asia Senatorial survey which was conducted last January 22 to 26 2010.

The 2 actor-politicians topped the 49 senatorial aspirants for the coming May 10, 2010 elections. The top 12 slot were filled by mostly re-electionists and former senators. The two other actor-politician candidates, former Dangerous Drug Board chairman Vicente ‘Tito’ Sotto III and Senator Manuel ‘Lito’ lapid were in 7th & 8th place respectively.

Senator Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino continues to lead the Presidential survey. In a survey conducted by the Social Weather Station commissioned by the BusinessWorld, Noynoy Aquino got the nod of 42% of the respondents. On second place is still Senator Manuel “Manny” Villar with 35%. In the current survey, Villar cuts Noynoy’s lead from 11% from the previous presidential survey to 7 percent.

On third place is former President Joseph Estrada with 13%, followed by Lakas-Kampi-CMD standard bearer Gilbert “Gibo” Teodoro on fourth place with 4%. Tied on fifth and sixth place are Senator Richard Gordon and Bro. Eddie Villanueva with 2% each.

A Precinct Counting Optical Scanner (PCOS) machine failed to transmit the data to the servers during the filed test conducted at Aguho Elementary School in Pateros on Wednesday. The COMELEC blames the defective SIM (Subscriber Identification Module) for the failure.

“The concern there was not actually the system but the use of the mobile network,” Comelec Commissioner Gregorio Larrazabal clarified. “We changed the SIM card and it was able to transmit, which is to say that the system works,” he added. However, Commissioner Larrazabal refused to identify the telecommunications company that provided the SIM card.

Senator and presidential aspirant Benigno ‘Noynoy’ Aguino III still tops the presidential race according to the survey conducted by the Social Weather Station (SWS) from December 27 to 28 last year.

Aquino tops all the 5 survey scenarios that was conducted during the test where the respondent’s were asked, “Sa mga sumusunod na pangalan sa listahang ito, sino po ang malamang ninyong iboboto bilang PRESIDENTE ng Pilipinas, kung ang eleksyon ay gaganapin ngayon?” (Among the names found on this list, who will you probably vote for as PRESIDENT of the Philippines, if elections were held now?).

The Commission on Election (COMELEC) Second Division junks the three (3) petitions to disqualify former president Joseph ‘Erap’ Estrada from running in the 2010 Presidential election. The poll body ruled to junk the 2 petitions filed by Evilio Pormento and Mary Lou Estrada for lack of merit.

“The better policy approach is to let the people decide who will be the next president. For on political questions, this Court may err but the sovereign people will not,” COMELEC’s Second Division said in a decision junking the petition filed against former president Estrada last December.

Voters will have to to choose from 150 party-list group in the coming May 2010 elections, this is after ruled on the petition of 6 more party list group.

The six (6) party-list group that will be added to the 144 party-list group are:

1. Alliance for Rural and Agrarian Reconstruction, Inc. (ARARO)
2. LPG Marketers Association, Inc. (LPGMA)
3. Alyansa Lumad Mindanao, Inc. (ALLUMAD)
4. Alyansa ng OFW Party (Alyansa)
5. Ang National Coalition on Indigenous People’s Action (Ang NCIP)
6. Bagong Koalison ng Nagkakaisang Samahan sa Sektor ng Transpostasyon (Bangon Transport)