The Liberal Party announced their initial list of senatorial candidates: 1. Former Senate President Franklin Drilon 2. Former Senator Serge Osmeña III 3.Detained officer Brig.…
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With less than six months to go before Election Day, Liberal party’s Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino, Jr. leads the presidential race by a big margin with 44 per cent, the October 2009 survey of Pulse Asia showed.
Number two is Nacionalista candidate Manuel Villar with 19 per cent followed by party less Francis Escudero, who has yet to decide whether to push through with his presidential plan, with 13 per cent.
Former President Joseph Estrada of the Patido ng Masang Pilipino got 11 per cent, Vice President Noli de Castro who has shown no interest in joining the race with four per cent, and the Arroyo administration bet, Gilbert Teodoro of Lakas-Kampi with two per cent.
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Leila de Lima, chairperson of the Commission on Human Rights said reasons cited by the Commission on Elections in denying the application of Ang Ladlad for accreditation as sectoral party illustrates that gays are objects of ridicule, contempt and violence which renders them marginalized.
It’s good that de Lima has taken up the cudgels for Ang Ladlad, a nationwide organization of lesbians, gay, bisexual and transgender persons.
De Lima read to the Comelec commissioners Article 7 of the Universal Declaration on Human Rights, to which the Philippines is a signatory, that states, “All are equal before the law and are entitled without any discrimination to equal protection of the law. All are entitled to equal protection against any discrimination in violation of this Declaration and against any incitement to such discrimination.”
Noong unang sinabi ni dating Public Works Secretary Hermogenes Ebdane na tatakbo siya bilang presidente hindi ko sineryoso. Sabi ko “maglalaba” lang yan.
Alam naman natin na ang problema ngayon ni Gloria Arroyo, ng mga miyembro ng kanyang pamilya, at ang mga alagad na kasabwat sa kanilang pagnanakaw sa kaban ng bayan ay kung paano i-secure ang mga bilyunes na kanilang nanakaw sa kaban ng bayan.
Isip kasi natin sa galit ng taumbayan, sigurado na ang susunod na pangulo ay galing sa oposisyun at i-imbestigahan ang mga anomalya na nangyari sa administrasyong Arroyo. Marami sa anomalya na yan ay sa DPWH, na nasa pamumuno ni Ebdane.
By PROBE PROFILES Without funds and a much-needed machinery, activist-environmentalist Nicanor “Nicky” Perlas thinks he has a good chance of capturing the presidency the nontraditional…
In a press conference this morning at the Makati Shangrila, Manzano, 54, was presented by Teodoro and Interior Secretary Ronaldo Puno, who had earlier withdrawn from his declared vice presidential bid.
Manzano said the qualities of Teodoro, who has been trailing behind other candidates in the surveys, that had appealed to him are “credibility, integrity,hardwork.”
“I believe that we can lead this country forward,” said Manzano, who is a Lakas-Kampi member. He was chairman of the Optical Media Board until a few months ago.
The announcement surprised many political observers who were expecting Manzano to take his oath as Liberal Party member so he could be in LP’s senatorial ticket.
Manzano has rated within the top 15 among the senatorial aspirants in a number of credible surveys.
Starting today up to Nov. 27, 2009, the daily activities of Sen. Noynoy Aquino, Liberal Party presidential candidate,can be seen in capsule, in a video blog in his website:www.noynoy.ph.
Speaking from his residence in Times street via video satellite with reporters assembled at the office of Campaigns and Grey, an advertising and public relations firm, Aquino admits to being not so New Media- savvy but said “he is a student by nature.”
The Concerned Citizens movement today filed a Supplemental Motion for reconsideration from a decision of the Supreme Court upholding the legality of the COMELEC- Smartmatic Automated Election Systems.
In a 25 page motion, CCM singled out two new grounds both of which arose from “supervening events” since the High Court dismissed the CCM Petition against the COMELEC. The grounds alleged by CCM are as follows:
I. Comelec/Smatmatic will not be able to comply with the July 10, 2009 because of their failure to provide telecommunication facilities –both satellite and land-based- that will assure one hundred per cent communications coverage at all times during the conduct of the 2010 general elections as stated in the contract.
2. Smartmatic resorted to subcontracting to manufacture the Precinct Count Optical Scan machines in question, first to JARL-Tech, and now, to a Chinese company known as Quisdi, violates not only the Comelec’s own bidding rules but also Republic Act 9184, the government’s New Procurement Act.
Kinukuha pala ng Lakas-Kampi si Sen. Ramon “Bong” Revilla Jr. na bise president para sa kanilang presidential candidate na si Defense Secretary Gilbert Teodoro.
Ini-report ng Philippine Star na sabi daw ni Revilla, handa raw siya na maging bise kay Teodoro kung makukuha niya ang ng basbas ng kanyang ama na si dating Senador Ramon Revilla Sr.
Sabi sa Star, “Unang binalak ni Bong na tumakbong bise presidente ngunit nang ma-stroke ang nakatatandang Revilla ay hiniling nito sa anak na muling na lamang kumandidatong senador para sa kanyang ikalawang termino.
Sabi pa ng Star, “Ngunit muling nabuhay ang posibleng pagtakbo muli ni (Bong) Revilla bilang bise presidente nang mawalan ng running mate si Teodoro, napipisil na presidential candidate ng administrasyon.”
Nawalan kasi ng VP si Teodoro nang biglang umatras sa planong pagtakbong pangalawang pangulo si Interior and Local Government Secretary Ronaldo Puno. Naisip yata nina Arroyo na mas makatulong si Puno sa kanyang kandidato kung sa DILG si Puno kasi kontrolado pa rin niya ang local governments.
Mabuting kumbinasyun itong Teodoro-Revilla. Kasi di ba ang campaign slogan ni Teodoro ay “Galing at Talino”. Balanse na ang tiket nila.
I’m using the word “again” because the two met last Sept. 28, two days after typhoon “Ondoy” turned many areas in Metro Manila into an ocean and battered thousands of families.
The Sept. 28 meeting, held at the Estrada residence on Polk Street in Greenhills, San Juan, was widely reported. Reports said Aquino was accompanied by his sisters while Sen. Jinggoy Estrada joined in the dinner/meeting.
Reports said they talked about “uniting the opposition” or fielding a common senatorial slate.
But then, three weeks after that meeting Estrada launched his presidential bid for 2010 in Tondo. So much about “unity.”
Last week, ABS-CBN quoted Estrada as saying that it’s the Aquino camp that is asking for a meeting. I asked an insider in the Aquino camp and they denied this quoting Noynoy as saying, “I did not ask for a meeting” with Erap.
A source said even without a second Erap-Noynoy meeting , there are negotiations for the inclusion of Sen. Jinggoy Estrada in the LP ticket.