The country’s biggest language and cultural organizations called for the restoration of Filipino and Literature subjects at the tertiary level. (ALI VICOY / FILE PHOTO / MANILA BULLETIN) In a unity statement, 14 language organizations underscored the need to advocate for nationalist and...
Mothers for Change (MOCHA) first nominee Mocha Uson asked the Commission on Elections (Comelec) on Wednesday, May 4 to check on the health status of former Vice President Jejomar Binay who is gunning for a senatorial seat. Mocha Uson files a manifestation before the Commission on Elections on...
Akbayan Partylist, the national political party backing reelectionist Senator Risa Hontiveros, has declared support to the six other senatorial candidates under the ticket of Vice President Leni Robredo and Senator Francis "Kiko" Pangilinan. Team Robredo-Pangilinan senatorial slate (Photo courtesy...
Political repression. That's how Magdalo Party-list Rep. Manuel Cabochan III described the treatment of the incarcerated Senator Leila de Lima as he joined the call to free her from detention. Senator Leila de Lima (Photo from Facebook/Leila de Lima) This, after self-confessed drug lord Rolan...
CEBU CITY -- Ang Probinsyano Party-list is hoping to muster the same support that it got from the Cebuanos in the previous elections. Ang Probinsyano will barnstorm Cebu in its bid to keep a seat in the congress as it enters the crucial phase of the campaign period for the May 9 national and local...
Gabriela Women’s Partylist, on Monday, April 18, called on President Rodrigo Duterte to “urgently sign” the Expanded Solo Parents’ Welfare Act to help alleviate the suffering of solo parents in the country. (Photo by Ted ALJIBE / AFP / FILE PHOTO / MANILA BULLETIN) Solo parents, according...
Gabriela Women’s Party, on Monday, April 11, denounced the online sexual harrasment that was perpetrated against Vice President Leni Robredo’s eldest daughter Aika Robredo. Vice Presidential daughter Aika Robredo at a house-to-house campaign in San Rafael, Bulacan on Monday, April 4. (Leni...
(MANILA BULLETIN FILE PHOTO) During COMELEC's En Banc session today, the COMELEC granted the LTFRB's petition to exempt the fuel subsidy program from the election ban on public spending for government projects. We laud and thank the COMELEC and the LTFRB for their swift action on this matter. The...
The Gabriela Women’s Party-list has moved up two spots in Pulse Asia’s March 2022 survey, where it now stands at 6th place among 177 running party-lists. (Photo from Gabriela Women's Party-list Facebook) “This affirms the unwavering support of Filipino women and the people for our consistent...
TACLOBAN CITY - Magsasaka Partylist Rep. Argel Cabatbat stressed that rehabilitation efforts should still be included in the presidential candidates' agenda. Magsasaka Partylist. (Photo from Tonette Marticio) “It seems that Supertyphoon 'Yolanda' and Visayas have already been forgotten. This...
CEBU CITY -- A party-list vowed to bring in more development in the countryside should it earn a return trip to the Congress in the May elections. Ang Probinsyano Party-list joins a motorcade in Siargao Island on Saturday, March 26. (Contributed photo/MANILA BULLETIN) Ang Probinsyano Party-list...
President Duterte on Tuesday, March 29, lashed out at progressive party-list groups which he accused of acting as "legal fronts" of the communist insurgency, barely two months before the May 2022 elections. (RTVM Screenshot) In his Talk to the People public address aired Tuesday night, Duterte...
