Presidential Spokesman Harry Roque said the People's Reform Party (PRP) will support the candidates of Hugpong ng Pagbabago (HNP) in the 2022 elections but insisted that Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte-Carpio should run for the presidency. Presidential Spokesman Harry Roque speaks at the 'Run Sara...
“It’s a circus!” This is how former Camarines Sur Rep. Rolando Andaya Jr. described current developments in the country’s political arena, saying that these were apparently triggered by the possible team up of Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte and former Defense Secretary Gilbert Teodoro in...
Retired Supreme Court Senior Associate Justice Antonio Carpio believes that the country’s weak economy will be the reason why presidential daughter and Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte-Carpio will lose if she runs as president in the May 2022 polls. Retired Supreme Court Senior Associate Justice...
House Majority Leader and Leyte Rep. Ferdinand Martin Romualdez on Tuesday, June 29, declared it is “not a good decision” to seek the vice presidency if it would mean running against President Rodrigo Duterte, who appeared to have a change of heart about sliding one rung below in 2022....
Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte Carpio had declined her father's wish to take a shot at the presidency in next year's elections. President Rodrigo Duterte and Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte-Carpio pose for a photograph during a meeting with the Filipino community at the Kai Tak Cruise Terminal in Hong...
A total of 14,000 doses of Sinovac vaccines will be allocated to the 7,000 tourism industry workers in Davao who will initially get the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) jab, the Department of Tourism (DOT) announced Tuesday, June 29. A health worker administers a coronavirus vaccine to a Manila...
DAVAO CITY - City Mayor Sara Duterte said the imposition of enhanced community quarantine (ECQ) status for Davao City was not yet discussed in the recent Davao COVID-19 Task Force meetings amid the surge of COVID-19 cases. “Wala pa tay discussion ana (We have not discussed a possible ECQ yet),"...
President Duterte’s national security and foreign policy strategies have violated the Philippine Constitution as they failed to “defend our sovereignty and national territory from foreign threats and invasion,” retired Supreme Court Senior Associate Justice and opposition coalition 1Sambayan...
Senator Richard Gordon on Friday said he believes the next leader of the Philippines should bear in mind that the presidency must be earned and not inherited. Gordon said this was an advise he gave out to other political leaders in the past like former President Benigno Aquino III. “Remember I...
In the event that Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte-Carpio runs for the presidency or vice presidency in the upcoming May 2022 national elections, such move is clearly within the definition of a political dynasty. Senator Aquilino “Koko” Pimentel III, a stalwart at the ruling Partido Demokratikong...
The camp of Vice President Leni Robredo on Tuesday, June 15, said presidential daughter and Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte-Carpio had an “overreaction” on what was a “simple observation” from the country’s second-highest official. Lawyer Barry Gutierrez, spokesperson of Robredo, clarified...
Vice President Leni Robredo’s spokesman said on Monday, June 14, she is ready and willing to help Davao City as it battles with the COVID-19 surge unless the camp of presidential daughter and Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte-Carpio will once more engage in politicking. Lawyer Barry Gutierrez...