Senate Minority Leader Aquilino "Koko" Pimentel's PDP-Laban wing "strongly denounced" the call made by former President Rodrigo Duterte's faction to troop at the EDSA Shrine. This was stated in a statement released by Pimentel's faction on its official Facebook page on Monday, Dec. 2, in response...
Voting 18-0-1, the Senate approved on third and final reading on Tuesday, Nov. 26, House Bill 10800 or the P6.352 trillion 2025 General Appropriations Bill (GAB). In plenary, Senator Grace Poe enumerated during the period of committee amendments how the Senate maximized the budget to secure the...
Senate Minority Leader Aquilino "Koko" Pimentel III said Vice President Sara Duterte’s recent behavior could affect her agency's budget. Pimentel was referring to the vice president's recent outburst against President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr., his wife and House Speaker Martin...
Senate Minority Leader Aquilino "Koko" Pimentel III has called on President Marcos to consider the proposal for the Philippines to rejoin the International Criminal Court (ICC). Pimentel made this appeal before members of the diplomatic community during a foreign policy address at the Department of...
Two more senators on Tuesday, November 5, expressed opposition to the deferment of the 2025 parliamentary elections in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM). Senate President Francis “Chiz” Escudero filed a bill to formalize his proposal seeking to defer the BARMM...
Senate Minority Leader Aquilino "Koko" Pimentel III said on Monday, November 4, that he got "worried" when he found out that former President Rodrigo Duterte taught in a police academy and instructed aspiring police officers questionable practices. "That is now a professor of a fresh police...
Senate Minority Leader Aquilino "Koko" Pimentel III said he wants lawyers in and out of the government to analyze the admissions made by former President Rodrigo Duterte in the Senate's drug war probe. Former President Rodrigo Roa Duterte delivers his opening statement during the start of the...
Former President Rodrigo Roa Duterte arrvies at the Session Hall of the Senate before the scheduled Blue ribbon commitee hearing the past adminisitration’s war on drugs, October 28, 2024. (Mark Balmores) “I did what I had to do." Thus, said former President Rodrigo Duterte as he...
Senate Minority Leader Aquilino "Koko" Pimentel III announced on Tuesday, Oct. 22, that the Senate's parallel probe on former President Rodrigo Duterte's bloody drug war will begin on Monday, Oct. 28. Pimentel will be presiding over a motu propio investigation of the Senate Blue Ribbon Committee...
For Senate Minority Leader Aquilino "Koko" Pimentel III, a parallel investigation in the Senate on the previous Duterte administration's drug war is a "good idea". Pimentel said in a text message on Tuesday, Oct. 15, that while this was "optional", it was a good idea to him "because it will give us...
Senate Minority Leader Aquilino “Koko” Pimentel III has expressed his strong support to the calls to increase compensation for teachers and poll workers. In relation to this, he renewed his call that these election-related benefits and allowances be made tax-exempt. "Napakahalaga ng gampanin ng...
Senate Minority Leader Aquilino "Koko" Pimentel III has filed a resolution urging the Senate to conduct an inquiry into the backlog of national ID cards. In his proposed Senate Resolution No. 1192, Pimentel called for a comprehensive review of the implementation of Republic Act No....
