TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte--It was like a victory party a full month before the actual elections. Presidential candidate Bongbong Marcos (Noel Pabalate/ MANILA BULLETIN) The UniTeam ticket attracted another mammoth crowd, this time at the jampacked Leyte Grandstand here on Saturday, April 9. According to...
Senator Franklin Drilon, a stalwart of the once-ruling Liberal Party (LP) that presidential candidate Vice President Leni Robredo still chairs to this day, believes that more local officials will be joining her “pink movement” in the coming days because of the surge in her March survey numbers....
The Philippine government is losing about P26 billion in taxes every year due to illicit cigarettes, a House lawmaker said. During the Combating Illicit Tobacco Trade webinar on Thursday, April 7, PBA Party-list Rep. Jericho Jonas B. Nograles said that based on the Euromonitor International report,...
Independent presidential candidate Panfilo M. Lacson on Wednesday, April 6 criticized the exploitation of the country’s party list system, saying the rich use it to lobby for their interests in Congress. Lacson issued the statement after President Duterte himself said that the next generation of...
PASAHERO Party-list is urging the Commission on Elections (Comelec) to “promptly and favorably” act on the request of the Land Transportation and Franchising Regulatory Board (LTFRB) to exempt the distribution public utility vehicle (PUV) drivers' fuel subsidy from the election public spending...
VALENCIA CITY, Bukidnon--Senator Ronald "Bato" dela Rosa said he has been scolded by his daughters because of the online cockfighting (e-sabong) issue. Senator Ronald "Bato" dela Rosa (left) and Gretchen Barretto (Noel Pabalate/ MANILA BULLETIN) More specifically, it's his spat with actress and...
VALENCIA CITY, Bukidnon--Senator Ronald "Bato" dela Rosa, a one-time presidential aspirant in the coming May 9, 2022 elections, says he's been rooting for Bongbong Marcos for a while now. Senator Ronald "Bato" dela Rosa (Ellson Quismorio/ MANILA BULLETIN) Dela Rosa, a Partido Demokratiko...
The National Unity Party (NUP) has endorsed the vice presidential campaign of Lakas—Christian Muslim Democrats chair Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte. Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte (center) speaks to reporters during a sortie in Antipolo on March 31, 2022 (Lakas-CMD Media) "We are one with Mayor...
Party-lists. One can argue that there’s just too many of them. Too many, in fact, that they occupy an entire page of the ballot. And yet, of the gazillion party-lists registered in every poll since the passing of Republic Act (RA) 7941 in 1995 (although it was the 1987 Constitution that created...
President Duterte said it is during the administration of the late President Corazon Aquino that the rich started to use the party-list system to get elected to Congress. President Rodrigo Roa Duterte talks to the people after holding a meeting with key government officials at the Arcadia Active...
BORONGAN CITY—Comparing her grand rally in Eastern Samar to a “beach party,” Vice President Leni Robredo on Tuesday, March 29, promised Samareños here that she would prioritize improving the province’s tourism sector to bring jobs and progress. Vice President Leni Robredo campaigns in...
President Duterte on Tuesday, March 29, lashed out at progressive party-list groups which he accused of acting as "legal fronts" of the communist insurgency, barely two months before the May 2022 elections. (RTVM Screenshot) In his Talk to the People public address aired Tuesday night, Duterte...
