MANILA – The son of the Philippines’ democracy icon Corazon Aquino on Tuesday moved one step closer to running for president when his main rival for their party’s nomination stepped aside.
Liberal Party chief Senator Mar Roxas withdrew his candidacy for next year’s presidential campaign so that Senator Benigno ‘Noynoy’ Aquino III could run.
“Noynoy has made [...]
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MANILA – Senators Gregorio “Gringo” Honasan, Antonio Trillanes IV, and Manuel Villar on Saturday expressed support for detained Brig. Gen. Danilo Lim’s plan to run for a national post, mostly likely a seat in the Senate, in 2010.
Honasan, a former military rebel who launched several unsuccessful coup attempts against the Aquino government, said Lim is very well capable of [...]
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MANILA – The guessing game on President Arroyo’s political plans next year is ruffling some feathers among her allies, with former president Fidel Ramos asking the incumbent to come clean about her 2010 ambitions while other top officials defended Arroyo’s right to privacy.
Ramos fired the first salvo on the President by asking her to stop [...]
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MANILA – The Supreme Court (SC) junked on Tuesday the petitions seeking to nullify House Resolution (HR) 1109 calling for a constituent assembly (Con-ass) to amend the charter even without the Senate.
In a unanimous decision penned by Chief Justice Reynato Puno, the High Tribunal dismissed the petitions filed by lawyers Oliver Lozano and Louis Biraogo [...]
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Former President Joseph Estrada is set to face President Gloria Arroyo if she will run for congress in Pampanga her hometown; the ex-president said that he himself will run to be a congressman in San Juan. Erap says that it will be a showdown once again this time in lawmaking body of the government – [...]
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MANILA – Former Commission on Elections (Comelec) chair Christian Monsod predicted on Friday that the Supreme Court, and even President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, will uphold democracy in the face of a renewed attempt to approve charter change.
In an interview over dzMM Friday, Monsod, also one of the authors of the 1987 Constitution, said he believes that justices [...]
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You are powerful. You will make a difference. If we all come together now, we will reach the tipping point when change becomes inevitable and irreversible. These are the ideas behind Boto Mo, I-Patrol Mo: Ako ang Simula, and there is no better time than now.
When friends and family overseas ask me what it’s like [...]
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MANILA – President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo will run again in May 2010 if efforts to change the form of government from presidential to parliamentary through a constituent assembly succeed, according to newly appointed Presidential Legal Counsel Raul Gonzalez.
In an exclusive interview with ABS-CBN News, the former justice secretary said he believes that Arroyo will run [...]
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MANILA – All is set for nationwide protests on Wednesday to oppose the latest attempt to change the 1987 Constitution through a constituent assembly (Con-ass) as approved by the House of Representatives last week.
In the national capital region, various church groups closed ranks to fight Con-ass. Together with at least seven senators and civil society [...]
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MANILA – It’s still pouring. The opposition to the charter change initiative, that is.
Various anti-Cha-cha (charter change) groups said Monday they will express themselves through peaceful means–whether in the streets or in the airwaves–to keep the momentum of public resistance going.
Organizers of a planned street rally in the country’s main financial district said the Wednesday [...]
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