Columbia International Affairs Online: Policy Briefs

CIAO DATE: 06/2010

Philippines: Pre-Election Tensions in Central Mindanao

May 2010

International Crisis Group

Abstract

As the Philippine election on 10 May 2010 draws nearer, voters in central Mindanao are focused on the political fallout from the “Maguindanao massacre”; clan politics; the new automated election system; and whether any agreement between the Philippines government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) is possible before President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo leaves office on 30 June.