Election survey freedom in the Philippines

This is a narrative of the recent triumph of freedom of expression over official attempts to ban publication and broadcast of exit polls and pre-election surveys, thanks to wise and timely actions by the Philippine Supreme Court, which demonstrated, in the words of a key Justice, ‘that the Court could meet head-on new paradigms of free expression brought about by the advances of science and technology’ (Panganiban 2001).
  

Election survey freedom in the Philippines

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Pre-election surveys and exit polls

In the Philippines, elections are held every six years for President and Vice- President, and every three years for the bicameral Congress. Senators in the 24-seat upper house have six-year terms, staggered to fill 12 seats every three years. The President, Vice-President, and Senators are all elected by the nation as a whole.Opinion polls have done very well in predicting election results, as maybe seen in headlines of newspaper sponsors...

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