Presidential candidate Senator Panfilo "Ping" Lacson has maintained that getting people vaccinated against coronavirus disease (Covid-19) must be voluntary and not mandatory out of respect for basic human rights and freedoms. Lacson stressed this yesterday (April 20) when a mother who participated...
The Commission on Elections (Comelec) First Division has denied the petition for disqualification filed by the group Pudno Nga Ilokano against presidential candidate Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr., the last remaining disqualification case pending against him at the division level. Presidential...
One of the many “resibo” or receipts, as she likes to call it, of Vice President Leni Robredo is the fact that she has always been the first on the ground during times of calamities, which is the same promise she made to Quezonians during a visit to Polillo town on Monday, April 18. Vice...
With the campaign period for the May 9 elections nearing the homestretch, it is not too late for candidates to show respect for the Filipino voters, presidential candidate Senator Panfilo M. Lacson on Monday, April 18 said. ‘’Respect for one another, respect for the election process, and most...
The Commission on Elections (Comelec) looks to destroy defective ballots by the last week of April. Workers check the printed official ballots to be used for the upcoming 2022 National and Local Elections at the National Printing Office (NPO) in Quezon City on March 15, 2022 (MARK BALMORES / MANILA...
The conservative Nationalist People’s Coalition (NPC) party has no presidential candidate for the coming May 9 national elections. ‘’As of now, the declaration of our Council of Leaders is free zone,’’ Senate President Vicente C. Sotto, NPC chairman, said. Sotto is the vice presidential...
The Commission on Elections (Comelec) said on Monday, April 18, that there will be no extension of the overseas absentee voting (OAV) beyond May 9, Philippine time, the date of the National and Local Elections. OVERSEAS VOTING BEGINS—An overseas Filipino in Bangladesh is among the early...
Commission on Elections (Comelec) Commissioner George Erwin Garcia urged on Monday, April 18 the people of the Province of Quezon to maintain peace in their area for the upcoming May 2022 elections. Comelec Commissioner George Erwin M. Garcia (Photo courtesy of Comelec FB) Garcia made the statement...
With only 20 days before the campaign season ends, Vice President Leni Robredo on Sunday, April 17, reminded her supporters to focus on the campaign and not get distracted by the mudslinging of other presidential bets. Vice President Leni Robredo (Photo from VPLR Media Bureau) “Alam kong maraming...
Presidential aspirant Senator Panfilo “Ping” Lacson and vice presidential candidate Senate President Vicente Sotto III on Sunday clarified they are not part of the call for Vice President Leni Robredo to withdraw from the presidential race. Lacson issued the clarification after joining the...
Three weeks before the May 2022 elections, four presidential candidates on Sunday took a united stand and said they will not withdraw their respective bids in the upcoming May 2022 elections. Senator Panfilo “Ping” Lacson, Manila City Mayor Isko Moreno, former defense secretary Norberto...
Presidential candidate Senator Panfilo “Ping” Lacson said he will pursue his plan to apply the same strategy he used in the past as Philippine National Police (PNP) chief in radically purging the culture of corruption within the government. When he was PNP chief, Lacson recalled the specific...
