House Deputy Speaker Rep. Rufus Rodriguez has promised to refile two electoral reform bills in the 19th Congress: one to ban the substitution of candidates in national and local elections; and another that declares incumbent officials as automatically resigned upon filing of certificates of...
Deputy Speaker and Cagayan De Oro 2nd district Rep. Rufus Rodriguez said that the chairmanships of the Commission on Elections (Comelec), the Commission on Audit (COA), and the Civil Service Commission (CSC) will be vacated on Saturday, June 4, and not on June 30, following the sine die adjournment...
Only the Supreme Court (SC) can stop Congress in its duty to canvass the votes cast for the presidential and vice presidential race during the May 9 elections. Deputy Speaker Rufus Rodriguez (Facebook) Deputy Speaker and Cagayan de Oro City 2nd district Rep. Rufus Rodriguez had this to say Tuesday,...
House Deputy Speaker Rep. Rufus Rodriguez has called on the House of Representatives to probe the election day incident wherein nearly two thousand vote counting machines (VCMs) malfunctioned, inconveniencing thousands of voters. Voters lining up at a precinct in Iloilo City on Monday, May 9, for...
Deputy Speaker and Cagayan de Oro 2nd district Rep. Rufus Rodriguez is prodding leaders of the House of Representatives and Senate to meet with the people of presidential and vice presidential candidates as well as their political parties to discuss the conduct of a speedy canvass. (Photo from...
Cagayan De Oro City 2nd district Rep. Rufus Rodriguez has called on presidential bet Manila Mayor Francisco “Isko Moreno” Domagoso to move on from his call urging rival candidate Vice President Leni Robredo to withdraw from the 2022 Palace race. House Deputy Speaker Rodriguez alongside Vice...
House Deputy Speaker and Cagayan De Oro 2nd district Rep. Rufus Rodriguez has underscored the call to exempt the Department of Agriculture's (DA) distribution of fuel subsidy from the Commission on Elections’ (Comelec) spending ban. (FILE PHOTO) The national government, last March, approved a...
House Deputy Speaker and Cagayan De Oro 2nd district Rep. Rufus Rodriguez said that the Commission on Election (Coomelec) should not consider the distribution of fuel subsidies political nor campaign spending. Deputy Speaker Rufus Rodriguez “It is a government agency that is giving the money to...
Deputy Speaker Rufus Rodirguez of Cagayan de Oro remains optimistic of things: first, that Vice President Leni Robredo will be the next president of the country. Deputy Speaker Rufus Rodriguez And second, that a Robredo presidency might pave the way for the suspension of excise taxes on fuel which...
House Deputy Speaker and Cagayan de Oro City 2nd district Rep. Rufus Rodriguez has urged President Rodrigo Duterte to endorse Vice President Leni Robredo’s presidential campaign. House Deputy Speaker and Cagayan de Oro City 2nd district Rep. Rufus Rodriguez He argued that VP Robredo has a...
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,...
Citing the ever-present threat of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), Deputy Speaker and Cagayan de Oro 2nd district Rep. Rufus Rodriguez prodded the Land Transportation Office (LTO) to get rid of its eight-hour long driving education test requirement for driver's license renewals. (Ryotando Ag/...
