SPEAKING OUT Ignacio R. Bunye On May 9, Filipinos will go to the polls to vote in the national elections. As crucial as the elections are, the campaign period is equally critical. Candidates are stepping up their campaigns to ensure victory, and this occasionally includes vote buying and selling....
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...
President Duterte confessed that he is praying that the next administration will be better than his in all aspects, particularly in talking peace with the communists and resolving the country's problems with illegal drugs. President Rodrigo Duterte (Malacañang photo) Duterte made the statement...
With 23 days left before the 2022 elections, the family of the late President Ramon Magsaysay has expressed full support for the presidential bid of Vice President Leni Robredo. The late President Ramon Magsaysay and Vice President Leni Robredo (File photos) In a statement released on Black...
Incumbent Pasig City Mayor Vico Sotto revealed on Thursday the reason why there are almost no posters of him around the city despite his re-election bid for a second term as mayor in the May 2022 elections. During one of his campaign sorties in Palatiw, Sotto was surprised after seeing a makeshift...
Former national defense secretary Gilbert Teodoro has stressed the need to remove some existing laws in government that are already irrelevant and have become a regulatory burden to major companies and the general public. That is why, should he win in the May 2022 senatorial elections, Teodoro said...
For Vice President Leni Robredo, the election is a “reset button” and one that voters should use to elect good leaders who would aim to end patronage politics and rampant vote-buying. Vice President Leni Robredo and Masbate Bishop Jose Bantolo (Photo from VPLR Media Bureau) She lamented how...
The country's future leader should not use his or her power for personal interests, Fr. Robert Reyes, said on Wednesday, April 13. (MB file photo / ALI VICOY) Reyes made the statement during a prayer rally in Intramuros in front of the Commission on Elections (Comelec) in Manila. Twenty-six days...
The Commission on Elections (Comelec) received on Monday, April 11 its third complaint regarding the alleged vote buying filed by a local candidate in Legazpi City, Albay. MB file photo Complainant Joseph San Juan Armogila, who is running for councilor filed a complaint-affidavit against incumbent...
The Philippine Embassy in Singapore has denied reports of voters receiving pre-shaded ballots when they cast their votes for the 2022 elections on April 11. Philippine Embassy Singapore (via Facebook) In a Facebook post, the Embassy reiterated its commitment to ensuring a clean and honest voting...
Claims of pre-shaded ballots in Singapore as well as in Dubai during the first day of the overseas voting will be investigated by the newly-formed task force of the Commission on Elections (Comelec) on fake news. Comelec Commissioner George Erwin M. Garcia (Photo courtesy of Comelec FB)...
Senator Imee Marcos, chairwoman of the Senate Committee on Electoral Reforms and People’s Participation, has called for extended office hours at Philippine embassies and consulates to ensure that overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) could cast their votes in this year’s national elections. Marcos...
