Anakalusugan Party-list Party-list Rep. Mike Defensor has taken up the cudgels for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) Filipinos who want to adopt a child, saying that it's perfectly legal for them to do so. (Jiroe/ Unsplash) “We must stress that under the law, the right to adopt a...
To provide students a safe and quiet place to study, Congressman Michael “Mike” Defensor (Anakalusugan) has vowed to open the Quezon City Public Library 24 hours a day, seven days a week, if he is elected mayor of the country’s largest city. Rep. Mike Defensor “We want the Quezon City...
Anakalusugan partylist Rep. Mike Defensor has expressed concern over the possible surge of new human immunodeficiency virus or HIV infections which could be brought by the disruptions in public health services amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Defensor on Sunday called on the next members of the Congress...
Quezon City's official spokesperson Pia Morato questioned on Friday, Feb. 4, the "political maturity" of Rep. Mike Defensor after the latter challenged Mayor Joy Belmonte to resign over alleged Commission on Audit (COA) “adverse findings” on local government's purchase of pandemic food packs....
Anakalusugan partylist Rep. Mike Defensor on Sunday renewed his call for the government to scrap the annual cap on the deployment of 7,000 on Overseas Filipino Workers (OFW) as he said it is unconstitutional. Defensor said Filipinos should enjoy the right to live and work wherever "they can achieve...
Quezon City mayoral aspirant and Anakalusugan partylist Rep. Mike Defensor has pledged to build molecular laboratories in the city should he win in the upcoming elections. In pushing for "transformative point-of-care screening services for multiple diseases," Defensor said Quezon City residents...
Quezon City mayoral aspirant and Anakalusugan Partylist Representative Micheal "Mike" Defensor said on Wednesday, Jan.12, that the city government can do more when it comes to coronavirus disease (COVID-19) response. Defensor made the statement after the city's COVID-19 cases went up to 202,614...
Anakalusugan partylist Rep. Mike Defensor has filed a bill seeking to give senior citizens 20 percent discount in toll fees. In filing House Bill 10630, Defensor said senior citizens "deserve greater preferential access to road transportation services, including a 20 percent markdown on tollway...
Anakalusugan Representative Mike Defensor on Thursday, Dec. 30 urged Department of Health (DOH) Secretary Francisco Duque lll and national vaccination czar Carlito Galvez to provide enough COVID-19 vaccines to vaccination centers in Quezon City and other parts of the country. Defensor made the...
A lawmaker on Sunday urged authorities to immediately arrest all the perpetrators behind the BDO hacking to know what may be their real motives aside from theft. Anakalusugan Partylist Rep. Mike Defensor issued his take on the recent cybercrime incident by saying "until and unless the suspects are...
Anakalusugan Rep. Mike Defensor has warned those behind the hacking of BDO Unibank accounts that they are bound to face economic sabotage as authorities are already discovering the identities of the perpetrators behind the cybercrime. "The act of breaking into a bank’s computer system and...
The Bongbong Marcos (BBM)-Sara Duterte UniTeam tandem will “woo voters in Metro Manila” on Wednesday, Dec. 8 through a grand caravan that will cover the metropolis. BBM-SARA1 (1) Organized by the Malayang Quezon City tandem of Anakalusugan Partylist Rep. Michael Defensor and Councilor Winston...
