Stage is set for Aquino challenge
NZPA-Reuter Manila More than 600 candidates and 26 political groups have registered for the 165 seats at stake in the Philippines’ first election since martial law was declared more than five years ago. The election is scheduled for April 7. The Commission of Elections in Manila yesterday said more than one third of those registered were in the metropolitan Manila region, which has only 21 seats to be elected in the new interim National Assembly. President Ferdinand Marcos will sit automatically as Prime Minister, and
i: can ultimately control the 5 Assembly since he continues : to hold his decree-making s powers and can decide its ’ term. 1 Despite its few seats, Mai nila will be the main arena for the challenge by the 1 principal Opposition group headed by the country’s ■ most prominent detainee, a i former senator, Benigno f Aquino. 8 It will face the Govern- , ment’s Kilusan Bagong Lipu--5 nan (New Society Movey ment), whose ticket in the capital will be headed by its I powerful governor and wife - of the president, Mrs Imelda 1 Marcos.
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