Senator Many Villar who placed third in the presidential race topped the poll expenses among all the candidates of Election 2010. With P431,557,816 in expenses, Villar was the biggest spender among nine presidential bets.

On the other hand, Senator Mar Roxas who had a very tight fight with VP-elect Jejomar Binay ranked third among all the hopeful political candidates with the biggest election expenses. Roxas spent the most with P279,351,224 among vice-presidential bets.

Here is the list of presidential and vice-presidential candidates who submitted statements of contributions and expenditures in the May 10 polls:

Manny Villar- P431,557,816
Mar Roxas- P279,351,224
Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino- P403,119,981.81
Gilbert “Gibo” Teodoro- P3,463,307.21
Jamby Madrigal- P55,182,264
Loren Legarda- P210,280,000
Bayani Fernando- P80,081,865.61

All the candidates are expected to submit the copy of their election expenses on or before June 24.

Reports said that the over-all expenses for this year’s election is 15 billion, P4.3 billion of which came from political advertisements of national candidates.

Atty. Ferdinand Rafanan, Comelec Law Department head, said the poll body will tap independent groups such as the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism, Pera’t Pulitika, Philippine Institute of Certified Public Accountants and Junior Philippine Institute of Accountants to help audit the statements of expenditures and contributions of the political parties and the candidates underneath the list.

Today is the proclamation of Aquino and Binay in Congress as newly elected president and vice-president of the Republic of the Philippines.

The canvassing of votes in the Congress for the president and vice-president position was done. Benigno “ Noynoy” Aquino III and Jejomar “Jojo” Binay got the positions respectively.

President-elect Aquino got 15,208,678 votes while Vice-president-elect Binay received 14,645,574 votes. Binay defeated Mar Roxas with 727, 084 lead.

Reports said that the canvassed votes from Davao City gave Binay edge over Roxas. There were some canvassed votes plus the null votes which were not counted because according to the canvassing committee this are not enough for Roxas to take advance in the race.

The counting of canvassed votes from Lanao del Sur, which were the last votes to count, was only for formality.
Camp of Roxas urged Congress to scrutinize the ballot boxes. However, the Joint Canvassing Committee didn’t allow that to happen.

On the other hand, Former-president Erap Estrada conceded to Aquino as the rightful winner in the May 10 elections. He offered his sincerest congratulations to Aquino and mentioned that he will continue to serve the masses in any way he can.

Philippines have a new senators as the Commission on Elections Proclaimed Ramon “Bong” Revilla, Jinggoy Estrada, Juan Ponce Enrile, Pia Cayetano, Vicente “Tito” Sotto III, Ralph Recto, Franklin Drilon, Senator-elect Miriam Defensor, and Ferdinand Marcos, Jr.

These Senators are already clear winners despite of more COC still needs to be included in the final counting.

Since Noynoy Aquino made his announcement to run for the Presidential Position last year, Manny Villar can only ranked second on the survey. The Partial Unofficial results of the Presidential race even made worse for Villar as he only rank 3rd behind former president Joseph Estrada.

Today, May 9, 2010 Manny Villar admitted his defeat and congratulates Senator Aquino. He also said he will continue his fight to end poverty to many Filipinos in other ways.

Its only Eleven days before the National Election here in the Philippines and most Politicians running for a position would do their best strategy for their TV ads and Radio ads and other means in campaigning to convince the people to vote for them come May 10. 2010.

Just this evening we saw Manny “Pacman” Pacquiao, Willie Revillame and Dolphy in one TV commercial endorsing Manny Villar as President. Coincidentally Pulse Asia released their latest Presidentiable and Vice Presidentiables Surveys and it shows that Villar is already tied with Joseph Estrada and Jojo Binay went up to second place in the Vice President position.

Smartmatic TIM Corp., the automated elections contractor is hiring 40k plus IT workers that would assist them in the Election 2010. The said company will start training the employees in January next year to prepare them for the Election.

The first wave of Nonoy’s Video ads came out few days ago and several faces from the entertainment industry were seen on the Hindi ka Nag-iisa music video Campaign.

The song was composed by Ogie Alcasid and sung by Regine Velasquez. Stars appeared on the said music video campaign includes Sharon Cuneta, Kris Aquino, Boy Abunda , Regine Velasquez, Ogie Alcasid, Anne Curtis, Bea Alonzo, Dingdong Dantes, Marian Rivera, Aiai delas alas, Mariel Rodriguez, Eric Santos and many more.

Defense Secretary Gilberto Teodoro was picked by Official of the ruling coalition of Lakas-Kampi-CMD to be their standard bearer for the 2010 Presidential election.

On some interview the main agenda of Teodoro if he gets elected as president is to push for changes in the 1987 Constitution through a Constitutional Convention.