内容摘要：WASHINGTON (AP) — When President Donald Trump directed his attorney general last month to investigate online fundraising, he cited concerns that foreigners and fraudsters were using elaborate “schemes” and “dummy accounts” to funnel illegal contributions to politicians and causes.

WASHINGTON (AP) — When President Donald Trump directed his attorney general last month to investigate online fundraising, he cited concerns that foreigners and fraudsters were using elaborate “schemes” and “dummy accounts” to funnel illegal contributions to politicians and causes.

On social media, he voiced alarm over “the grave threat facing democracy today.”if the electoral tribunal bars him from the race,

in the run-up to the deeply polarized vote scheduled for Aug. 17.President Arce dismissed their criticism, asking only that “the electoral dispute not generate political and economic instability.”Rodríguez — a fresh-faced 36-year-old candidate who generated excitement among voters disillusioned with

and outraged with Arce’s handling of— also called for protests against what he called “a political decision” to suspend his candidacy.

“No ruling or judicial decision driven by political interests can overrule the sovereign will of the people,” he wrote on X.

The Supreme Electoral Tribunal gave narrow, technical reasons for the decisions as the window closed for candidates to register their political parties.Police take out a bag of marijuana from the pocket of an unidentified drug suspect after he was shot dead by police while trying to evade a checkpoint in Quezon city, north of Manila, Philippines, Sept. 6, 2016. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila, File)

Police take out a bag of marijuana from the pocket of an unidentified drug suspect after he was shot dead by police while trying to evade a checkpoint in Quezon city, north of Manila, Philippines, Sept. 6, 2016. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila, File)EDS NOTE: GRAPHIC CONTENT - Police inspect one of two unidentified drug suspects shot by police while trying to evade a checkpoint in Quezon city, north of Manila, Philippines, Sept. 6, 2016. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila, File)

EDS NOTE: GRAPHIC CONTENT - Police inspect one of two unidentified drug suspects shot by police while trying to evade a checkpoint in Quezon city, north of Manila, Philippines, Sept. 6, 2016. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila, File)Jose Luis Martin “Chito” Gascon, director of the independent Commission on Human Rights, described them as extrajudicial killings, and said the phenomenon has plagued the country at least since late dictator Ferdinand Marcos was ousted in a “people power” revolt in 1986.