Political News March 29, 2013

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29 MARCH 2013
 
LP NEWS
 
Re-electionist Sen. Loren Legarda yesterday urged Filipinos to "carbon fast" this Lenten Season, saying that practicing low-carbon lifestyle is needed to save the ailing ecosystem. Legarda, chairman of the Committee on Climate Change, is running under the Team PNoy.
 
 
UNA NEWS
Following a rigorous campaign beset by power outages in Southern Mindanao, United Nationalist Alliance (UNA) senatorial candidates urged the Aquino administration to come up with long-term solutions to address the worsening power crisis besetting Mindanao.
 
 
 
OTHER STORIES
The camp of former President and now Pampanga Rep. Gloria Macapagal Arroyo has decided to remain in the background as an ecstatic Aquino administration celebrated the country’s Fitch Ratings upgrading its credit rating to investment grade for the first time in the nation’s history.
 
The principal author of a bill providing positive and non-violent discipline of children yesterday appealed to senatorial candidates to include the measure in their respective legislative platforms.
 
 A progressive labor group yesterday challenged the Commission on Elections (Comelec) to implement fairly the poll body’s rules by filing charges against candidates and party-lists supported by the administration, alleging that they committed election violations. 
 
Posters of Local candidates are already up in the areas of Cabuyao and Sta. Rosa, Laguna, a day before the official start of the campaign period for local officials.
 
Senatorial bets Baldomero Falcone, Richard Gordon and re-electionist Antonio Trillanes IV faced off on ANC’s “Harapan 2013.” The candidates addressed issues such as the Senate budget and pre-election surveys.
 
Senatorial candidates Teddy Casiño, Ramon 'Jun' Magsaysay and Ernesto Maceda faced tough questions on the first episode of ANC’s “Harapan 2013.”
 
Almost all the senatorial hopefuls for the 2013 polls are in favor of passing a Freedom of Information (FOI) law in the country, interviews conducted by GMA News Online revealed.
 
 
 
EDITORIAL
 
The Church, the Academe, and the Media received higher trust ratings by 1,575 respondents and 600 informed public in 1,200 rural and urban areas nationwide who were polled for the 2nd Philippine Trust Index (PTI) in November-December, 2012, by the Ateneo Graduate School of Business and EON firm.
 
 
 
 


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