President Marcos has appointed two new commissioners of the Commission on Elections (Comelec) a day before the start of the campaign period for the 2025 national elections. Marcos has designated lawyer Ma. Norina Tangaro-Casingal as Ad Interim commissioner of the poll body for a term expiring on...
Pulse Asia A significant majority of the electorate (79 percent) reported awareness of the party-list system, based on the results of the Pulse Asia non-commissioned survey released on Monday, Feb. 10. Awareness levels across geographic areas range from 68 percent in the Visayas to 98 percent in...
With about four months remaining before the May 2025 senatorial election, nearly half of Filipino registered voters inclined to vote, as well as those undecided about casting their ballots, have named 12 of their preferred senatorial candidates (50 percent), based on a Pulse Asia non-commissioned...
AGRI Party-list and senatorial aspirant Wilbert T. Lee has withdrawn from the Senate race, citing that he does not have enough political machinery for a successful national campaign. Lee instead vowed to focus on helping his party-list win its re-election bid to ensure the continuity of its...
As the nation prepares for the 2025 midterm elections, the Manila Bulletin launches Matalinong Boto 2025: Balitang Tapat Para sa Payapang Halalan, a campaign anchored on three essential pillars: facts, not fake news; peaceful elections, not violence; and respectful discourse, not...
Matalinong Boto 2025 official logo The Manila Bulletin, a monolithic force in truth-telling that has endured 125 years of radical changes in Philippine political landscape, will launch on Monday, Feb. 10, its election information campaign...
True to her promise, former vice president Leni Robredo will be at the official campaign kick-off of senatorial candidates Bam Aquino and Francis “Kiko” Pangilinan on Tuesday, Feb. 11, in Dasmariñas, Cavite. Senatorial candidates Bam Aquino and Kiko Pangilinan with former vice president...
Undersecretary Ariel Nepomuceno (Courtesy of Office of Civil Defense) The Office of Civil Defense (OCD) said it is focusing on three “priority actions” this year to further improve the country’s national civil defense and disaster risk reduction and management program. Undersecretary Ariel...
Senator Loren Legarda has filed a bill that seeks to establish the National Public Service College (NPSC) as the country’s premier training ground for future government leaders. Legarda says the proposed measure, which will be called the National Public Service College Act of 2025 once enacted,...
Vice President Sara Duterte still has no plans for the upcoming campaign period in the rundown to the 2025 midterm elections. Vice President Sara Duterte holds a press conference about her impeachment in Mandaluyong City on Feb. 7, 2025. (Santi San Juan/MANILA BULLETIN) In a press...
While President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr.'s allies are likely to retain control of Congress after the midterm polls, a worsening conflict with Vice President Sara Z. Duterte-Carpio and her impeachment, alongside the economic struggles of ordinary Filipinos, may challenge the administration's hold on...
ZAMBOANGA CITY – The Police Regional Office-9 on Wednesday, Feb. 5, led the signing of a peace covenant and solidarity pact with stakeholders in the Zamboanga Peninsula region for the May elections in Camp Romeo Abendan, Barangay Mercedes, this city. PRO-9 Director Police Brig. Gen. Roel Rodolfo...
