Senator Ramon Revilla was expected to train his guns at Interior Secretary Manuel Roxas II at a press conference scheduled on Friday in connection with the police cordoning off the Revilla mansion in Bacoor, Cavite, on Election Day on May 13.
All six reelectionist senators got a fresh mandate from the electorate in the just concluded midterm elections but it was Sen. Alan Peter Cayetano who gained most in terms of political capital after the recent campaign, a political science professor told the Inquirer on Friday.
Senator Franklin Drilon on Thursday called on the United Nationalist Alliance to concede Team PNoy’s election victory in order to discourage conspiracy theories and allegations of irregularity regarding the May 13 mid-term elections.
Former Sen. Ramon Magsaysay Jr. on Tuesday wished the 12 newly elected senators well, calling on them to stick to the highest standards of integrity, accountability and public service.
President Aquino has a ready answer for those tirelessly reviving Charter change (Cha-cha) at every opportunity: No.
There will be no leadership change in the Senate when the new Congress convenes in July, Sen. Franklin Drilon told reporters last week.
Even the administration coalition didn’t expect Grace Poe to top the senatorial elections. Team Pnoy campaign manager Sen. Franklin Drilon told reporters their own surveys indicated Poe might land in the Top Five but did not predict she would bag the No. 1 slot.
The anti-election fraud campaigner on President Benigno Aquino’s senatorial ticket has questioned the propriety of the Commission on Elections’ early proclamation of six senators-elect, five of them administration candidates, calling it “premature” and “wrong.”
The administration’s Team PNoy on Thursday called on election officials to explain the alleged glitches that had slowed the official canvass of Monday’s polling.
Young guns appear poised to invade the Senate.
Going by the partial yet already substantial count of both the Comission on Elections and the Parish Pastoral Council for Responsible Voting, administration candidate Benigno “Bam” Aquino IV stands to become the fourth so-named senator in Philippine legislative history.
Malacañang expects the senators who ran and won under the administration’s Team PNoy coalition to support President Aquino’s big-ticket legislation like the organic law for the Bangsamoro autonomous region that will seal the government’s peace deal with the separatist Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF).
“Go out and vote tomorrow (Monday),” Malacañang urged Filipinos on Saturday, acknowledging that the midterm elections are a referendum on President Benigno Aquino III’s administration.
