The Philippine election commissioner who became one of the sharpest public critics of President Bongbong Marcos - a lawyer whose willingness to speak bluntly from inside institutions made her name carry weight beyond the bureaucracy.
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I want to be remembered as a commissioner who served with honor and excellence. I stuck to independent decisions and was the lone dissenter in several Comelec decisions.
Rowena Guanzon: Who’s this poll exec in a fighting mood days before retirement? Philippine Daily Inquirer
We are not a stamping pad of an overaged, disqualified pretender.
On Duterte Youth chair Ronald Cardema withdrawing as nominee for alleged harassment of Commissioner Guanzon vs Cardema: He won’t destroy my
People in Rockwell aren’t like this, so, they are Chinese. He even said, ‘No, you are contagious, you should leave.’ Contagious, just a cough? My national pride was hurt.
Former COMELEC Commissioner clarified in an interview the incident when an alleged Chinese national told her to leave the mall because she
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Rowena Guanzon served as mayor of Cadiz in Negros Occidental until 1992, then worked as chief of staff to Senator Miriam Defensor Santiago. She moved through the audit commission before landing at the Philippine Commission on Elections in February 2015, appointed under President Benigno Aquino III and continuing under Rodrigo Duterte. The perch gave her a platform, and she used it - her public criticism of President Bongbong Marcos became pointed enough to define her second act. She currently stands aligned with Vice President Sara Duterte, a shift that maps the fluid alliances of Philippine politics.
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