Outgoing Senator Panfilo M. Lacson said the Office of the Ombudsman could unilaterally initiate an investigation into the alleged corruption-laden, multi-billion-peso Pharmally Pharmaceutical Corp. Covid-19 pandemic contracts. Lacson, chairman of the Senate national defense and security committee,...
Outgoing Senator Panfilo “Ping” Lacson on Thursday said the order of the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) to block access to over 20 websites has a legal basis under the anti-terror law if these platforms are involved in financing the activities of the Communist Party of the...
Outgoing Senator Panfilo “Ping” Lacson on Saturday, June 18 said he was confident Retired Gen. Jose Faustino Jr. is competent to be the next Department of National Defense (DND) chief. Lacson said he vouches for Faustino’s capability to head the DND despite having earlier objected to his...
Outgoing Senate President Vicente Sotto III and outgoing Senator Panfilo Lacson said Tuesday, June 14 that the wearing of face masks outdoors and the placing parts of the country under alert level 2 must be based on science. This was the same position espoused by Sotto and Lacson during the...
Outgoing Senator Panfilo “Ping” Lacson on Sunday, June 12 offered prayers for the health of Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana, who fainted during the Independence Day flag-raising ceremony in Manila. “Prayers, prayers for SND Del’s health,” Lacson said on his Twitter account. Lacson, who...
Outgoing Senator Panfilo Lacson on Monday, June 6 said he has no heavy heart in leaving the Senate. ‘’After last session (June 1), nag start na kami mag impake (we started packing up)," Lacson of his stint in the Senate. He lost in the May 9, 2022 presidential race. However, Lacson said there...
Several senators are now slowly moving out of their offices at the Senate complex in Pasay city as their terms expire on June 30. Outgoing Senate President Vicente C. Sotto III said his taking out of his personal effects at his Senate office does not hurt as he looks at the transition from a high...
One of the 10 presidential bets in the May 2022 polls has already submitted the Statement of Contributions and Expenditures (SOCE). Comelec/MB Data from the Commission on Elections (Comelec) showed that Senator Panfilo "Ping" Lacson has already submitted his SOCE as of Friday, June 3. Other SOCE...
At least two senators, on Friday, May 27 threw their support behind President-elect Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr.'s plan to continue and even improve the 23-year-old PH-US Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA). The VFA was signed on May 27, 1999 by Thomas Hubbard, representing the United States, and Domingo L....
Senator Panfilo "Ping" M. Lacson on Thursday (May 26) said bringing down the rate of the Value-Added Tax (VAT) while removing VAT exemptions in several sectors would go a long way in raising much-needed revenues for the government while lessening the burden on ordinary Filipinos. Lacson said this...
Senator Panfilo “Ping” Lacson on Wednesday said he sees no problem so far on the personalities whom President-elect Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos, Jr. have named to be included in his Cabinet. “I have always been consistent in my position that the choice of Cabinet members is the...
Senator Panfilo “Ping” Lacson on Wednesday praised presumptive president Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos, Jr. for openly expressing his plan to discuss the re-signing or extension of the Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA) between the Philippines and the United States. Presidential candidate...
