VERA Files’ Mario Ignacio covered the proclamation of the first nine winners in the 2010 senatorial contest. The top nine are: Ramon “Bong” Revilla, Jr.;Jinggoy…
Making life worth living.
Year: 2010
Hindi ako nababahala sa away ng iba’t-ibang grupo na sumuporta kay Noynoy Aquino, ang susunod na pangulo ng Pilipinas.
Maganda yan para sa demokrasya. Sila mismo magbabantayan at taumbayan ang makikinabang.
Nabulgar itong iringan dahil sa mahigpit na laban sa pagka bise-presidente nina Mar Roxas ng Liberal party at Jejomar Binay ng Pwersa ng Masang Pilipino.
Lumabas na meron palang mga grupo sa loob ng organisasyun ni Noynoy na ang kanilang kinakampanya ay Noy-Bi (Noynoy Aquino para president at Binay para bise-presidente).
From: Philippine Daily Inquirer
LINGAYEN, PANGASINAN, Philippines—Look who’s talking now.
A former Army general, who figured prominently in the controversial “Hello Garci” scandal in the 2004 elections, is now complaining of being cheated after losing in the congressional race in Pangasinan’s sixth district.
In a statement e-mailed to reporters, Hermogenes Esperon Jr., former chief of staff of the Armed Forces of the Philippines, denounced vote-buying and the “bullying” of village voters that, he said, “altered the decision of the electorate.”
Vice Gov. Marlyn Primicias-Agabas clobbered Esperon, also former head of the Presidential Management Staff, who got 85,069 votes as against her 114,523 votes.
The Supreme Court has junked a petition filed by Jose Miguel Arroyo,husband of Gloria Arroyo, which sought to dismiss the damage suit filed against him by a group of journalists whom he hauled to court for libel.
In a minute resolution, the Supreme Court ruled that the Court of Appeals did not commit a reversible error in sustaining the ruling of Judge Zenaida Galapate Laguilles of the Regional Trial Court of Makati City, Branch 143.
Judge Galapate-Laguilles had previously denied the presidential spouse’s motion to dismiss the P12.5-million class suit. The First Gentleman cited the failure of the journalists to immediately answer the written interrogatory within the prescribed extended period.
by Yvonne Chua, Luz Rimban and Avigail Olarte VERA Files Monday’s election was supposed to have ushered Filipino voters into the modern age of computerized…
As of Thursday, with 89 percent of the votes in, the Commission on Election Count gave Aquino 13.8 million votes followed by Estrada with 8.4 million votes. With only about 10 percent of some 38 million votes cast left uncounted, Aquino’s over- five- million vote-lead looked insurmountable.
But the fact that Estrada, invariably dismissed by analysts early in the election campaign as either a “spoiler” or “a kingmaker”, one who can help ensure the victory of one candidate in a close contest by his endorsement, is running second, overtaking the expensive campaign of Nacionalista Party Manuel Villar, showed his strong hold on the masses who comprise the bulk of the 50 million voters despite his being convicted of plunder . (Estrada was convicted of plunder in 2006 after more than six years in detention but was pardoned by Gloria Arroyo a month after.)
Congressman na si boxing champ Manny Pacquiao.
Panalo siya laban sa negosyanteng si Roy Chiongbian. Kaya “Honorable” na ang magiging titulo nya.
Hindi na siya maa-aring ismolin ni Kris Aquino na nagpasaring sa kanya bago mag-eleksyun na talunan naman daw siya sa pulitika.
Congressman na rin ang dating spokesman ni Gloria Arroyo na si Anthony Golez. Binoto siya ng mga taga-Bacolod. Ganun din si dating Agriculture Secretary Arthur Yap.
by Tetch Torres
Inquirer.net
President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo on Wednesday appointed Supreme Court Associate Justice Renato Corona as the incoming chief justice upon the retirement of Chief Justice Reynato Puno on May 17.
Corona was appointed associate justice by Arroyo on April 9, 2002. He graduated law from the Ateneo Law School in 1974. While studying, he also worked full time in the Office of the Executive Secretary. He ranked 25th in the 1974 Bar examination out of 1,965 candidates.
After law school, he studied Master of Business Administration at the Ateneo Professional Schools and in 1981, he was accepted to the Master of Laws program in Harvard Law School, where he focused on foreign investment policies and the regulation of corporate and financial institutions.
Philippine Daily Inquirer
They are popular and controversial candidates that local pundits thought had victory in the palms of their hands.
Some are facing the possibility of defeat: Scandal-riddled former Agriculture Undersecretary Jocelyn “Jocjoc” Bolante, priest-on-leave Eddie Panlilio, actor Cesar Montano, former Justice Secretary Raul Gonzalez, and many former police and military generals.
Others have sealed or are sensing inevitable triumph: World boxing champion Manny Pacquiao, President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, actress Vilma Santos, the Marcoses, Singsons, Dutertes, Dazas and other political dynasties.
Bolante was being trounced by incumbent Gov. Victor Tanco in the closely watched gubernatorial race in Capiz, according to partial election results of the Commission on Elections (Comelec).
Dinky Soliman back to her old post
by Gil C. Cabacungan Jr., Philip Tubeza
Philippine Daily Inquirer
TARLAC CITY—Presidential front-runner Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III is seriously thinking of inviting his cousin Gilbert Teodoro to join the “talent search” for members of his proposed Cabinet.
In a press conference Tuesday, Aquino disclosed that he had checked out the ban on hiring relatives up to the fourth degree of consanguinity and found that it did not apply to Teodoro because their kinship was in the fifth degree.
Teodoro, the Lakas-Kampi-CMD standard-bearer, was among the candidates who conceded the presidential race to Aquino on Tuesday.