Senator Christopher “Bong” Go running in tandem with President Rodrigo Duterte in the upcoming May 2022 national elections is inevitable, a party official of the Partido ng Demokratikong Pilipino-Laban (PDP-Laban) said on Tuesday. But the choice of the party’s standard-bearers would still...
For President Duterte, a politician who received "call boy" training has no business seeking the presidency. President Rodrigo Duterte (File photo/Malacañang) Presidential spokesman Harry Roque explained the President was questioning the "moral ascendancy" of such a person to lead the country when...
Comelec/MB The Commission on Elections (Comelec) will be leasing additional 10,000 voting machines for the May 2022 general elections. The Comelec will be conducting a public bidding for the lease of precinct-based Optical Mark Reader (OMR) or Optical Scan (OPSCAN) System or Voting/Counting Machine...
Senator Panfilo "Ping" Lacson on Monday, August 9, said he blocked around 200 troll accounts who attacked and insulted him on social media following his meeting with Vice President Leni Robredo. In an interview with ABS-CBN's Teleradyo, Lacson said he started getting insults after Robredo rejected...
Senate President Vicente Sotto III on Monday, August 9 said he is unperturbed with the emerging number of political parties that have pledged their support to Hugpong ng Pagbabago’s Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte-Carpio. Sotto, Nationalist People’s Coalition (NPC) chairman, and who is expected...
A group of education workers on Monday, Aug. 9, called on the Senate to expedite the passage of a counterpart measure that would exempt poll service compensation from tax. (Photo from DepEd) The Alliance of Concerned Teachers (ACT) Philippines welcomed the development on its long-standing fight to...
Senate President Vicente "Tito" Sotto III on Monday, August 9, said he, too, respects Vice President Leni Robredo's rejection of Senator Panfilo "Ping" Lacson's proposal to unify the opposition for the 2022 elections, even as he believed that the vice president should not have shot it down right...
Senator Panfilo Lacson on Sunday said he will ask the Philippine National Police (PNP) to explain to the Senate the motive behind its so-called “Intensified Cleanliness Policy” or ICP and its relation to the National Task Force for Ending Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC). Lacson said...
Senator Panfilo Lacson on Sunday said he respects Vice President Leni Robredo’s decision to reject his offer of a “sure unification formula” for the May 2022 elections which he offered selflessly. “It was a selfless move on my part to offer the unification formula to VP Leni Robredo since...
Senator Sherwin Gatchalian maintained on Saturday, August 7, that his vice presidential bid will depend on whether or not he will be picked by Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte as her running mate for next year's elections. Senator Sherwin Gatchalian (Office of Sen. Gatchalian) In an interview with...
With Manila Mayor Francisco "Isko Moreno" Domagoso's impending transfer to the Aksyon Demokratiko, the Nationalist People's Coalition (NPC) may have to reconsider forging an alliance with the political party for the 2022 elections. Nationalist People's Coalition chairman and Senate President...
Is a Robredo-Recto alliance for the 2022 elections in the offing? Senator Ralph Recto releases on August 5, 2021 a photo with Vice President Leni Robredo during his visit at her office in Quezon City (Recto/Facebook) Vice President Leni Robredo held talks with Senator Ralph Recto during the...
