Political News March 22, 2013
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POLITICAL NEWS
22 MARCH 2013
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Businessman Eduardo “Danding” Cojuangco,
President Aquino’s uncle, has asked his allies in Negros Occidental to
support only seven senatorial candidates in the May elections.
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Team PNoy senatorial candidate and former
Senator Maria Ana Consuelo “Jamby” Madrigal branded Nancy Binay
an “elitist” for crying harassment after her mother was initially
prevented from leaving for the Vatican last Monday.
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The Team PNoy coalition yesterday denied the
Aquino administration is harassing members of Vice President Jejomar Binay’s
family.
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Caught in the middle between his girlfriend,
movie actress Heart Evangelista, and his prospective in-laws, reelectionist
Sen. Francis “Chiz” Escudero cried foul over the accusations hurled against
him, claiming that what the Ongpaucos were doing “was not right.”
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President
Aquino yesterday asked voters whether
they want leaders like the late Interior Secretary Jesse Robredo who he said
was an upright public servant, or politicians who criticize and
complain without offering any clear solutions to the country’s problems.
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United Nationalist
Alliance (UNA) senatorial candidate, former Las Piñas Rep. Cynthia Villar,
said she is supporting calls to improve the job-matching in the country as
the unemployment rate rose to 7.93 million as of January.
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A “Bill of Rights” for new college
graduates is a
priority agenda of Team P-Noy senatorial candidate Edgardo
“Sonny” M. Angara to help fresh graduates find jobs or establish their
own businesses right after graduation.
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Reelectionist Sen. Loren Legarda, who
consistently tops several surveys, said she is the unofficial campaign endorser of the Team
PNoy senatorial candidates.
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Former youth leader and now Liberal Party senatorial bet Benigno Paulo
“Bam” Aquino has called for innovative ideas and more creativity including the
utilization of low technologies using indigenous materials and alternative power sources in the water supply sector to sustain
the needs of the growing population and economy and adapt to the challenges
of climate change.
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United Nationalist Alliance (UNA) stressed that the junking has started in the
ranks of the Liberal Party-led coalition.
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At least three Team PNoy senatorial candidates yesterday
sought a ceasefire on political bickering as Filipinos observe Holy Week next
week.
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Pabiro man ang reaksyon, hindi rin nakaligtas
sa mapanuring mata at tenga ng mga mamamahayag ang bahagyang selos ni Team
PNoy senatorial candidate Grace Poe sa kapartidong si reelectionist Sen.
Loren Legarda dahil sa closeness nito kay dating Pangulong Joseph Estrada na
kanyang ninong.
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Nagpasalamat si Senador Aquilino ‘Koko’
Pimentel III sa Kaya Natin! Movement for Good Governance and Ethical
Leadership sa pag-endorso nito sa kanyang kandidatura sa pagka-senador sa
halalan sa Mayo 2013.
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Despite its condemnation of the incursion into
Sabah by followers of Sultan Jamalul Kiram III of Sulu, it is the obligation
of the Philippine government to provide legal assistance to Filipinos who
have been arrested and are facing charges of terrorism in Malaysia, a
senatorial candidate said here Thursday.
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A knockout nothing less. The United Nationalist
Alliance (UNA) expects to give the Liberal Party (LP) a knockout punch come
the May 13 elections in General Santos City.
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Veteran
reporters covering United
Nationalist Alliance’s (UNA) campaign sorties protested the mismanagement of
its media bureau.
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A jam-packed covered court filled to capacity with 5,000
supporters greeted the United Nationalist Alliance (UNA) in Day Two of the
coalition’s Southern Mindanao tour.
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“Those
who are quick to judge are the
ones hiding something. Kaya nga nagja-judge agad to save himself. Bakit dukha
pa rin ang Sorsogon?”
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President Aquino on Thursday sounded cool to the idea of
using emergency powers to deal with brownouts in Mindanao, but he assured the
public that there would be an adequate power supply on Election Day on May 13.
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The Supreme Court has entertained doubt instead
of clarifying it when it stopped the government from implementing Republic
Act 10354 or the Responsible Parenthood and Reproductive Health Act of 2012,
the Supreme Court’s youngest magistrate and latest Aquino appointee said.
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There will be no number coding for Holy Week,
from March 27 until April 1, according to Metropolitan Manila Development
Authority (MMDA) Chairman Francis Tolentino.
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The Supreme Court decision unseating Lucy
Torres-Gomez as legislator does not affect her candidacy, according to the
Commission on Elections (Comelec).
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The Department of Budget and Management (DBM)
has released P832 million for the performance-based bonuses (PBB) of some
18,000 government employees.
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Associate Justice Teresita Diaz Baldos of
Sandiganbayan Second Division ordered the issuance of another arrest warrant
Thursday against suspended Cebu Governor Gwendolyn Garcia for failure to
attend the scheduled arraignment of her graft case.
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Some 50 lawmakers who graduated from the
University of the Philippines are targeting to raise P100 million from their
pork barrel allocations to put up an assistance fund for poor UP students.
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Unknown to many Filipinos and, perhaps,
Malaysians, the Sultanate of Sulu has pending cases against Malaysia before
the United Nations, seeking US$25 billion in damages for allegedly exploiting
Sabah’s rich natural resources from 1972 to 1992.
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United Nationalist Alliance (UNA) senatorial candidate Jack
Enrile may not have been the target of the sniping incident in Compostela
Valley after all.
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Malacañang is not inclined to intervene in the
stand-off in Imus, Cavite arising from the refusal of Mayor Emmanuel Maliksi
to leave his post despite a court order.
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The Commission on Elections (Comelec) announced
yesterday that it extended until April 2 the deadline for registration of
local absentee voting in the May midterm polls due to the long holiday break.
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Legaspi City is awash with
unused cash from pork barrel funds that lawmakers have been sending its way
over the years.
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The number
of persons killed due to election-related violence is now 32, the PNP
Directorate for Investigation and Detective Management said.
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Posters bearing candidates’ congratulatory
messages to graduates are considered campaign materials, the Commission on
Elections said on Thursday.
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Malacanang confirmed on Thursday that a Chinese
ship entered Philippine territory early this week, but denied that it was an
“intrusion” into the country’s 200-mile exclusive economic zone.
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The Agriculture Department on Thursday appealed
to the media not to equate rice sufficiency with zero imports.
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President Benigno Aquino III said on Thursday
that the Palace search committee had already come up with a shortlist for the
two vacancies in the Commission on Elections.
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The Commission on Elections (Comelec) on
Thursday said that some 45 provinces needed precinct re-clustering to
maximize the utilization of the poll body’s resources.
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Malacañang on Thursday
thumbed down the clamor of influential Makati Business Club (MBC) executives
for Charter changes (Cha-cha) before President Aquino steps down in 2016, to
remove foreign-investment restrictions in the 1987 Constitution in a bid to
lure more investors into the country.
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Commission on Elections
(Comelec) Chairman Sixto Brillantes said the precinct count optical scan
machines (PCOS) left at a hotel in Cagayan were already not functioning.
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Bro. Eddie Villanueva’s senatorial campaign got a boost
from Manny Pacquiao after the Jesus is Lord (JIL) founder secured backing
from the fighting congressman.
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Commission on Elections (Comelec) Chairman
Sixto Brillantes on Thursday said Commissioner Grace Padaca has been
inhibiting herself from her electoral protest against Isabela governor Bojie
Dy.
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EDITORIAL
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The Pulse Asia survey results suggest that
President Aquino continues to enjoy high approval ratings (68 percent )and
trust ratings (70 percent) despite a storm of criticism for his handling of
the conflict between the Philippines and Malaysia over the landing of the
Sultan of Sulu’s armed followers in Sabah on Feb. 9.
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Candidates aren’t the only ones making the
rounds of educational institutions these days.
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The 120-day status quo ante order issued by Supreme Court (SC)
effectively stopped the Executive Department from implementing the
controversial Republic Act (RA) No. 10354.
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More than a month into a national campaign drive, some
opposition parties are already conceding the administration LP-coalition has
the upper hand in the logistics contest. In Spanish, the one-sided situation
is called “ventaja,” or advantage, in favor of Team PNoy.
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The Aquino administration is bent on foisting
the propaganda that the Philippines will attain rice self-sufficiency this
year.
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It is interesting that Senator Alan Peter
Cayetano’s move to stop a Commission on Elections (Comelec) rule limiting
broadcast commercials is being interpreted in many ways.
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Blogger Leslie Bocobo has taken issue with
senatorial candidate Sonny Angara’s statement that “college education should
be within reach, not out of reach,” in reaction to the suicide of University
of the Philippines student Kristel Tejada. “Isn’t Sonny Angara an ex-officio
member of the UP Board of Regents, the same Board that implemented the “no
late payment policy” which drove Tejada to take her own life?” Bocobo asked.
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The ultimate argument
against any policy or person is to accuse that policy or person of being
anti-poor.
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