House Deputy Speaker Rufus Rodriguez on Friday called on President Dutete to immediately fill the still empty seats of the seven-member Commission on Elections (Comelec). In a statement, Rodriguez said the May 9 elections are "fast approaching" and the poll body now needs all the help it can get,...
Despite being behind bars for five years, detained Senator Leila de Lima said she does not regret standing up to President Duterte's "inhumane policies" which she said had kept her in unjust detention for the past five years. Senator Leila De Lima (Screengrab from VP Leni Robredo Facebook Page) In...
TALISAY CITY, Cebu — Presidential aspirant Vice President Leni Robredo and Senator Francis “Kiko” Pangilinan on Thursday, Feb. 24, were joined by his wife, megastar Sharon Cuneta-Pangilinan here as they addressed their pink-clad supporters to campaign for their bid to the country’s top two...
The Commission on Elections (Comelec) said on Thursday, Feb. 24 that it will ask first for a written consent before entering private properties to remove unlawful election materials in relation to "Operation Baklas" that it's implementing. The Commission on Elections (Comelec) removes unlawful...
Former Senator Antonio Trillanes IV is introduced as the “Bantay ng Bayan (Guard of the Nation)” in his new campaign ad released on Thursday, Feb. 24 for his 2022 senatorial bid. (Screenshot from Sen. Trillanes’ Facebook page) During his 12-year term in Senate from 2007 to 2018, the former...
Acting Commission on Elections (Comelec) Chair Socorro Inting said on Thursday, Feb. 24 that voter registration would be for nothing if the public would not vote in the 2022 national and local elections on May 9. (MB file photo) Inting made the statement on the official signing of the poll body's...
Vice presidential candidate Senate President Vicente Sotto III on Wednesday said he is more than prepared to face his rivals in upcoming debates as it would give him a better chance to lay out the Lacson-Sotto tandem's plans to uplift the lives of Filipinos. Even before announcing their political...
Incumbent and returning senators dominated the senatorial results of the PAHAYAG Election Tracker Survey, with eight of them entering the top 12 slots, PUBLiCUS Asia Inc., an independent non-commissioned national survey, bared on Wednesday. Former senator and incumbent Sorsogon Governor Francis...
The election bid of Vice President Leni Robredo and Senator Francis "Kiko" Pangilinan for president and vice-president, respectively, got a major boost with the endorsement from lay and religious representatives of the Vincentian Family in the Philippines. (Photo courtesy of Team LENI-KIKO 2022) In...
ILIGAN CITY — Vice President Leni Robredo does not think that Mindanao is a stronghold of his rival, former Senator Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr., and remains confident the region will deliver for her rival as it did in 2016. Presidential aspirant Vice President Leni Robredo addresses the...
Malacañang on Monday, Feb. 21, said the issues on human rights in the Philippines raised by the European Union (EU) Parliament are being used by critics of President Duterte to influence the outcome of the upcoming national elections. European Union flags fly outside the European Commission...
The only way to for a presidential candidate to get the President Rodrigo Duterte’s Partido Demokratikong Pilipino-Laban’s (PDP-Laban) endorsement is for them to adhere to the party’s “11-point Agenda for Continuity” which includes the continuation of the administration’s war on drugs,...
