Senate gives way to youth, women
By Gil C. Cabacungan
The women and the youth are taking over the Senate.
The women and the youth are taking over the Senate.
With a firmer grip on Congress, President Aquino is expected to push for changes in foreign equity restrictions to attract more capital in order to create more jobs and reduce poverty incidence.
Monday’s senatorial contest is widely seen as a face-off between President Aquino and Vice President Jejomar Binay to determine who is the bigger vote-getter.
The Iglesia Ni Cristo officially informed their followers in Wednesday night’s worship that the church has picked seven Team PNoy senatorial candidates and five United Nationalist Alliance bets for their bloc voting on May 13.
Reelectionist Sen. Antonio Trillanes IV has accused one of the Big Two polling firms of “massaging” the results of its surveys to benefit paying candidates.
The Iglesia ni Cristo (INC) is leaning toward a 7-5 senatorial slate favoring the administration coalition’s Team PNoy over the “opposition” United Nationalist Alliance (UNA), as the block-voting religious sect tries to appease both President Aquino and Vice President Jejomar Binay.
Senatorial candidates are seeking “command votes” and visiting vote-rich provinces in the final week of the campaign to gain the support of the still significant number of voters who have yet to decide whom to vote for.
A payment of P7 million for the film rights to the movie about his life in exile three years ago has made Sen. Panfilo “Ping” Lacson’s net worth increase significantly.
The firm is not so firm after all. Several sources from legal, business and political circles have claimed that the Villaraza Cruz Marcelo & Angangco, or CVC Law office, easily the country’s richest and most powerful law firm, is in turmoil and on the verge of breaking up, with senior partners Avelino “Nonong” Cruz and Simeon Marcelo threatening to leave the 33-year-old law partnership over management and financial differences.
Lawmakers are hopeful that lawyer Al Parreño, who has an activist background, will bolster the system of check and balance in the Commission on Elections.
A top businessman on Wednesday called on Malacañang to include the private sector in mapping out fresh antipoverty programs as lawmakers blamed income inequality for chronic poverty amid robust economic growth.
The party-list group of El Shaddai leader Bro. Mike Velarde is downplaying rumors of a brewing rivalry among the Buhay nominees.
Several lawmakers on Wednesday criticized the Bureau of Internal Revenue for coming out with a list of top 500 individual taxpayers led by show-biz personality Kris Aquino that they claimed were incomplete and inaccurate.
