The Senate on Monday, May 30, resumed its first face-to-face session since it adopted a hybrid set up in May 2020 due to COVID-19 restrictions. At least 18 senators were present during the plenary session at 3 p.m. Senate President Vicente Sotto III had earlier ruled that hybrid sessions would no...
OF TREES AND FOREST Former Senate President Manny Villar The votes that have been reflected in the COMELEC Transparency Servers and reported in real time by various media outfits and citizen watchdogs seem to show one thing—a landslide victory for the tandem of former Senator Ferdinand...
A total of 141 of 173 Certificates of Canvass (COCs) for president and vice president have been delivered to the Senate as of Tuesday, May 17, 2022. Senate personnel receives the latest ballot boxes delivered at the grounds of the upper chamber on May 17, 2022. (Senate PRIB Photo) According to the...
Senate President Vicente C. Sotto III has always been one of the more sober and reasonable voices in the Senate. Lawyer Ferdinand Topacio issued the statement after thanking Sotto for his ‘’kind announcement regarding our clients Mohit Dargani and Linconn Ong, and to his adherence to the ruling...
Two Pharmally Pharmaceutical corporation executives will come out of the Pasay City jail on June 3 with their heads held high ‘’unbroken and unbowed.’’ This was the statement issued today (May 17) by lawyer Vonn Rico Kapunan, lawyer of Mohit Dargani, treasurer, and Linconn Ong, auditor, who...
The two detained Pharmally Pharmaceutical Corporation executives are expected to be freed from jail on June 3, the ‘sine die’ adjournment of Congress. This is because the contempt charge slapped by the Senate Blue Ribbon committee against the two shall have been extinguished, Senate President...
More ballot boxes containing Certificates of Canvass (COCs) and Election Returns (ERs) for president and vice president were delivered to the Senate today (May 16). As of 7:11 a.m. Monday, May 16, 2022, the Senate received 128 COCs or 73.99 percent of the total 173 COCs expected to be transmitted...
The Senate has received a total of 117 or 67.63 percent of the 173 Certificates of Canvass (COCs) and Election Returns (ERs) for president and vice president expected to be transmitted to the Upper Chamber, as of Sunday, May 15. Numerous ballot boxes rolled in at the Senate on the sixth day of its...
Senate Majority Leader Juan Miguel Zubiri said Saturday, May 14 that would try to get a majority in the 24-member Senate that would help pass the legislative agenda of presumptive president Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. Zubiri, whose reelection in the May 9, 2022 polls has been all but...
The first bill that incoming Senator Raffy Tulfo will file in the 19th Congress will be about domestic violence. ‘’In my anti-domestic violence bill whoever the victims are, they will be helped. Victims need places where they can go to for immediate help, where they can seek safe refuge, find...
So. who will be the Senate President in the forthcoming 19th Congress? There are still no clues on who will replace outgoing Senate President Vicente Sotto III, chairman of the Nationalist People’s Coalition (NPC). Sotto lost in the May 9, 2022 vice presidential race. By June 30, he will have...
As speculations rise on who should be the Senate President in the 19th Congress, returning Senator Loren Legarda’s name has also cropped up. Legarda is one of the frontrunners in the May 2022 senatorial elections, ranking second in the race, based on partial and unofficial count from the...
