Senator Koko Pimentel, head of PDP-Laban Pimentel-wing, said Tuesday, April 5 that allowing his party-mate, presidential aspirant Senator Manny Pacquiao to run under a different party in the May 9 Palace race was actually a "tactical decision". Pimentel also said that the move to permit Pacquiao to...
Senator and lawyer Aquilino "Koko" Pimentel III asserted on Tuesday that heirs who have delinquent estate must no longer receive their inheritance. In an ANC interview on Tuesday, Pimentel said it was because "theoretically the entire estate of the person who died would have to be surrendered to...
Senator Aquilino “Koko” Pimentel III has filed a resolution calling for a Senate inquiry into the apparent failure of the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) to collect the estate tax obligation due on the estate of the family of former president Ferdinand Marcos. In filing Senate Resolution No....
Partido ng Demokratikong Pilipino-Lakas ng Bayan (PDP-Laban) Chairman Senator Aquilino “Koko” Pimentel III on Wednesday criticized the group of Energy Secretary Alfonso Cusi for engaging into transactional politics, saying their group’s endorsement of former senator Ferdinand “Bongbong”...
Partido Demokratiko Pilipino–Lakas ng Bayan (PDP-Laban) Cusi faction Sec-Gen. Melvin Matibag brought up Senator Aquilino "Koko" Pimentel Jr's campaign history during the 2019 senatorial midterm elections, wherein he ran alongside Senator Imee Marcos, sister to presidential bet Ferdinand...
Partido ng Demokratikong Pilipino-Lakas ng Bayan (PDP-Laban) Chairman Senator Aquilino “Koko” Pimentel III on Wednesday predicted that the faction led by Energy Secretary Alfonso Cusi will defect from the ruling political party and join whoever would win in the May 2022 presidential elections....
Senator Ronald ‘’Bato’’ dela Rosa on Tuesday, March 22 said he is disappointed that some policemen are blinded by money. During his Senate public order and dangerous drugs committee public hearing on the missing 34 ‘sabungeros’ (cockfighting afficionados) yesterday, dela Rosa warned...
Partido ng Demokratikong Pilipino-Lakas ng Bayan (PDP-Laban) chairman Senator Aquilino “Koko” Pimentel Jr. on Tuesday said slammed the decision of the camp of Energy Secretary Alfonso Cusi to endorse the presidential candidacy of former senator Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos, Jr. saying it is...
Smartmatic, the Commission on Elections (Comelec) poll technology provider, should be wary of its employees and vet them carefully, senators on Sunday said. Sen. Imee Marcos, who chairs the Senate Committee on Electoral Reforms, made the call after the panel’s discovery that a Smartmatic employee...
The Commission on Elections (Comelec) should explain why it is prohibiting political party representatives, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and the public from monitoring the configuration of SD cards at its technical hub in Santa Rosa, Laguna when it should be done in “full view” of the...
Senator Aquilino “Koko” Pimentel III on Wednesday, March 9 suggested the simplification of election laws, taking into account jurisprudence which interprets the current provisions of a law. Sen. Aquilino "Koko" Pimentel III Pimentel made the suggestion as the Senate committee on electoral...
Sen. Aquilino “Koko” Pimentel III on Monday, Feb. 21 cautioned Aksyon Demokratiko standard-bearer Mayor Francisco “Isko Moreno” Domagoso from seeking the ruling Partido Demokratiko Pilipino-Lakas ng Bayan's (PDP-Laban) endorsement for the presidency, saying that such support is already...
