"We will touch base with the widest women, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT), and children’s rights constituencies in keeping with our reputation as the sole women’s partlylist in Congress.” This was stated by Gabriela Partylist Representative Arlene Brosas when she took her oath of...
The fate of the K-to-12 education hangs on a balance as Vice President-elect Sara Duterte admitted on Monday, June 20, that it will be taken up by the next administration. Vice President-elect Sara Duterte (Photo by Noel Pabalate / MANILA BULLETIN) Duterte, the incoming Education chief, said the...
The Commission on Elections (Comelec) on Friday, June 17, revealed that it gave due course to the substitution of the nominees No. 2 to 5 of the SAGIP Party-List. Comelec/MB Based on the data provided by the poll body, the new nominees of SAGIP are Rodante Marcoleta (second), Jocelyn A. Bituin...
Though he is grateful to President-elect Ferdinand Marcos Jr. for considering him as Department of Energy secretary, House Deputy Speaker Rodante Marcoleta said that he is not jostling for the position, adding that he could have done more if he won a seat in the Senate. Deputy Speaker and SAGIP...
The Commission on Elections (Comelec) released the partial and official results for the partylist poll on Monday, May 16, with the Anti-Crime and Terrorism Community Involvement and Support Partylist (ACT-CIS) leading the pack with 2,102,828 votes. The Commission on Elections (Comelec) en banc...
Gabriela Women’s Partylist, on Saturday, May 14, slammed a report on the apparent 8.3 percent growth of the Philippine gross domestic product (GDP) in the first quarter of 2022. (Gabriela Women's Partylist / Facebook) An increasing GDP indicates that a country’s economy is growing. However,...
Anti-Crime and Terrorism Community Involvement and Support Partylist (ACT-CIS) remained on top of the partylist race based on the results of the partial and official canvassing of the Commission on Elections (Comelec) on Friday night, May 13. Comelec Chairman Saidamen Pangarungan presides over the...
Thirty-nine more certificates of canvass (COCs) were canvassed by the Commission on Elections (Comelec) en banc on the third day of the canvassing on Thursday, May 12. The Commission on Elections (Comelec) en banc, sitting as the National Board of Canvassers for the senatorial and party-list...
Anti-Crime and Terrorism Community Involvement and Support Partylist (ACT-CIS) seized the top spot in the partylist race based on the partial and official tally of the Commission on Elections (Comelec) released on Thursday, May 12. ACT-CIS PARTYLIST (Courtesy of ACT-CIS Facebook page) ACT-CIS...
Outgoing President Duterte on Thursday recommended the abolition of the party-list system in the country and advised his successor to call for changes in the Constitution. Duterte made the appeal as he repeated his allegations that some party-list groups are infiltrated by the communists and that...
Parties and candidates of the Makabayan bloc have not been disqualified from the 2022 national elections despite claims made by a fake document; members of the bloc have even described the disinformation as a “desperate act by anti-democratic and fascists minions of NTF-ELCAC (National Task Force...
The National Alliance of Broadcast Union (NABU) and Kapamilya Partylist on Thursday, May 5, expressed their support to incumbent Quezon City Mayor Joy Belmonte’s re-election bid in the upcoming May 9 elections. “Ang NABU ay susuporta lamang sa mga magtataguyod sa press freedom. Ang NABU ay...
