MANILA, May 12 (PIA) – United States Ambassador to the Philippines, Philip S. Goldberg, congratulated the Filipino people in the recently held national and local elections.
“I congratulate the Filipinos on their exercise of democracy. It reminds the world that PH is such an open and healthy democratic system,” said Ambassador Goldberg in his tweet.
Ambassador Goldberg also said that he is looking forward to congratulating the next leaders of the country, once the official election results are in.
The national and local elections were held nationwide in the Philippines on Monday, May 9, 2016.
Commission on Elections (COMELEC) Chair Juan Andres Bautista announced that the poll body’s voter turnout reached over 80 percent, wherein about 40 million exercised their right of suffrage. (US EMBASSY MANILA/RJB/JEG/PIA-NCR)
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