The Commission on Elections (Comelec) found several discrepancies in the canvassing of senatorial and partylist groups’ votes in overseas voting and North Cotabato, a commissioner confirmed Tuesday, May 17. Commissioner George Garcia (Ali Vicoy/MB) Commissioner George Erwin Garcia said the...
As senators-elect are set to be proclaimed by the Commission on Elections (Comelec) on Wednesday, May 18, Comelec Acting Spokesperson John Rex C. Laudiangco provided a glimpse of what will happen on proclamation day. Comelec Acting Spokesperson John Rex C. Laudiangco (JEL SANTOS/MANILA BULLETIN)...
Senate Majority Leader Juan Miguel Zubiri said the 24-member Senate has a bloc of almost a dozen independently elected senators who are looking forward to working productively with the new administration for the good of the Filipino people. Zubiri, a re-electionist, has made it to the "Magic 12",...
A sub-canvassing body will be created for party-list groups, Commission on Elections (Comelec) Commissioner George Erwin M. Garcia said on Tuesday night, May 10. (JEL SANTOS/MANILA BULLETIN) Through this, he said the poll body will be able to segregate the canvassing of votes for senators and...
Presidential aspirant Senator Manny Pacquiao has supported the call for senators to inhibit themselves from elections-related investigations because their participation has "conflict of interest". Pacquiao told reporters in an ambush interview during his Tuesday, March March 29 sortie in Quezon...
Presidential aspirant Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. and vice presidential candidate Sara Duterte-Carpio on Thursday released their official and partial list of senatorial slate for the upcoming elections. They are: SAGIP partylist Rep. Rodante Marcoleta, lawyer Larry Gadon, Sen. Migz Zubiri,...
President Duterte has expressed his frustration over what he described as the "stupid laws" that prevent the national government from promptly responding to disasters, like the one caused by typhoon "Odette" the week before Christmas. President Rodrigo Duterte (Malacañang photo) In his...
President Duterte is giving Filipinos "control" over what happens in his weekly late night public briefings dubbed "Talk to the People". President Rodrigo Duterte speaks during the pre-taped "Talk to the People" public briefing on Dec. 13, 2021 (Malacañang photo) In the pre-recorded episode of...
President Duterte has dared the Senate to make good of its supposed threats to slash the allocations of certain agencies amid the ongoing 2022 national budget hearings of the legislative chamber. JUST DO IT--President Duterte challenges the Senate to significantly reduce the budgets of certain...
Vice President and presidential aspirant Leni Robredo has named 11 candidates of the opposition senatorial slate for the May 2022 polls Friday, Oct. 15. Vice President Leni Robredo (Photo screengrab from VP Leni Robredo Facebook Page) Robredo identified the first 11 senatoriables as former Senator...
Don't hold your breath, senators. NO WAY!--President Duterte rejects on Oct. 6, 2021 the senators' call for him to rescind his memo barring executive department workers from attending the hearings of the Senate Blue Ribbon Committee. (Screenshot from Facebook live) President Duterte categorically...
As his tirades against the Senate continue, President Duterte has now warned senators that he will "imprison" them if his Cabinet members or any worker from the Executive Branch will be cited in contempt and detained. President Rodrigo Duterte (Malacañang photo) Duterte made the statement amid...
