The Commission on Elections (Comelec) has suspended the voter registration and issuance of voter's certification in a number of towns and cities in Cebu starting August 11. Comelec/MB In an advisory, the poll body cited the implementation of the modified enhanced community quarantine (MECQ) as...
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...
Rock royalties Brian May and Eric Clapton differ on their stance concerning the COVID-19 vaccine. The guitarist of rock band Queen calls anti-vaxxers “fruitcakes” and disagrees with Eric Clapton’s “anti-vaccination rhetoric.” In an interview with British online newspaper The Independent,...
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...
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...
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 has confirmed that he has plans to run for vice president in the May 2022 national elections. Gatchalian, a member of the Nationalist Peoples’ Coalition (NPC) headed by Senate President Vicente Sotto III, admitted his vice-presidential bid in a televised interview...
Senate Minority Leader and Liberal Party vice chairman Franklin Drilon on Tuesday, August 3 rejected assumptions that Vice President Leni Robredo has given up a possible presidential bid in the upcoming May 2022 national elections. Drilon reiterated that the Liberal Party’s objective is for the...
The United Nationalist Alliance (UNA) will put on hold all political talks related to the upcoming May 2022 national and local elections, as the COVID-19 pandemic continues to make a negative impact into the lives of many Filipinos, Senator Nancy Binay said on Tuesday. “As the Covid-19 pandemic...
Senate Minority Leader Franklin Drilon on Monday, August 2, scored the Duterte administration’s plan to double the budget of the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) to P40-billion in the upcoming deliberations of the proposed 2022 national budget saying the...
Senator Risa Hontiveros on Monday urged the Commission on Elections (Comelec) to extend the voter registration period especially in areas affected by the 15-day enhanced community quarantine (ECQ). risaimage Hontiveros noted there is no word yet if the current deadline, September 30, 2021, would be...
