PHILIPPINES NEWS SERVICE — THE expected team-up of Senators Manuel “Mar” Roxas II and Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III is now official. Roxas himself yesterday announced he has accepted Aquino’s offer to become…
Category: Election
Lawyers shout: Erap cannot run!
PHILIPPINES NEWS SERVICE — MAJORITY of lawyers present in yesterdays’ Fernandina forum who debated whether former President Joseph “Erap” Estrada can still run for re-election or not answered with a resounding “No!”…
Ebdane to fight Gibo
PHILIPPINES NEWS SERVICE — PUBLIC Works Secretary Hermogenes Ebdane, Jr. is seriously considering giving Defense Secretary Gilberto Teodoro, Jr. a good fight in getting the nomination of the Lakas-Kampi-CMD. Ebdane has admitted…
Villar shrugs off ‘No-El’ plot
PHILIPPINE NEWS SERVICE — NACIONALISTA Party (NP) President Sen. Manny Villar Jr. has brushed aside fears of no elections (No-El) next year even as he warned would-be plotters in and outside Malacañang…
GMA happy with Gibo
PHILIPPINE NEWS SERVICE — PRESIDENT Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo is happy with the choice of Defense Secretary Gilbert “Gibo” Teodoro for the merged Lakas-Kampi-CMD standard-bearer even as the Palace assured that the latter will…
Gibo sure of getting party backing
PHILIPPINE NEWS SERVICE — A DAY after Sen. Noynoy Aquino declared his presidential bid, Defense Secretary Gilbert Teodoro, Jr. projected a possible “Cojuangco-Cojuangco” fight in the May 2010 elections. The Defense chief…
Kiko to sub for Mar?
PHILIPPINE NEWS SERVICE — SENATOR Francis Pangilinan is ready to stand in for Senator Mar Roxas if Roxas turns down the offer of Liberal Party presidential bet Noynoy Aquino to be his…
Roxas sacrifice may unite LP
PHILIPPINE NEWS SERVICE — THE prospects of the opposition uniting got a boost after Sen. Manuel “Mar” Roxas ll stepped aside to give way to Sen. Benigno Simeon “Noynoy” Aquino ll in…
New Comelec commissioner named
PHILIPPINE NEWS SERVICE — President Macapagal-Arroyo has named Gregorio Larrazabal as commissioner of the Commission on Elections. Executive Secretary Eduardo Ermita yesterday announced the appointment of Larrazabal, who at 37 is the…
Noynoy undecided, goes on retreat
PHILIPPINE NEWS SERVICE — SEN. Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III is going on a retreat to seek spiritual discernment before deciding whether to accept the challenge of becoming the standard-bearer of the Liberal…
Chiz leads Loren as NPC 2010 bet — Mark Cojuangco
PHILIPPINE NEWS SERVICE — NO less than the son of the founder of the Nationalist People’s Coalition (NPC) is convinced that Sen. Francis Joseph Escudero could be the party’s choice for its…
History rewrites itself..
History rewrites itself… What a historic, epic moment There will never be a time Captured for all eternity That will thrill and dazzle As today. When a Man of Color Stands in…
Danding prepares for 2010 elections
PHILIPPINE NEWS SERVICE– Although the next presidential race is three years away, business tycoon Eduardo Cojuangco Jr. has expressed his desire for the Nationalist People’s Coalition to gear up this early for…
SC paves way for Zubiri’s proclamation
PHILIPPINE NEWS SERVICE — THE Supreme Court yesterday denied an appeal to stop the canvassing of votes for Maguindanao province, paving the way for the proclamation of the 12th and last winning…
Bedol faces ouster, criminal raps
PHILIPPINE NEWS SERVICE — Lawyer Lintang Bedol, the controversial elections officer of Maguindanao, will face criminal charges in court if he fails to show up and explain the loss of election documents….