House to push Charter change
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.
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.
The Commission on Elections (Comelec) went on its merry course Saturday night, proclaiming the final three senatorial winners even as criticisms and questions continued to come its way over its controversial decision to declare the victors in last Monday’s senatorial elections even before all the votes could be counted.
The six senators whom the Commission on Elections (Comelec) proclaimed on Thursday the top winners of the May 13 senatorial race should return their certificates as their proclamation was invalid, according to a prominent election lawyer.
The Commission on Elections proclaimed the top six winners of the senatorial race Thursday night, three days after the frustratingly slow count of the vote in what was supposed to be automated elections started.
After a spurt in the first hours after the voting ended, the counting slowed, making the tally in the country’s second automated polls move at snail’s pace and raising questions about the credibility of the results.
A day after unofficial election results showed her ahead in the Senate race, Grace Poe evaded a television reporter who wanted to shadow her, received business cards handed to her staff by strangers and had Pad Thai noodles for lunch.
Step aside Loren Legarda, the perennial No. 1 in preelection surveys of voters’ preferred senatorial candidates.
Confident of getting a majority in Congress, President Aquino is looking to tighten his grip on the Senate and House of Representatives to push for his legislative agenda in his last three years in office.
It’s clear to former President Joseph Estrada and the other leaders of the United Nationalist Alliance (UNA) that Monday’s elections are just a preliminary battle in the bigger war three years from now.
The Supreme Court has issued a status quo ante order against the “money ban” resolution of the Commission on Elections (Comelec) that would have prevented the withdrawal and the carrying of large amounts of cash before and during the elections on Monday.
President Aquino shot down the antivote-buying scheme that bans the withdrawal of more than P100,000 in the run-up to Election Day, calling it a “shotgun approach” that kills good business.
Malacañang rejected speculation about a massive power failure on May 13, Election Day, as Metro Manila and much of northern and central Luzon reeled from an outage on Wednesday.
Surprise! Starting Wednesday until May 13, the Commission on Elections (Comelec) is imposing a ban on cash withdrawals of more than P100,000 from banks and other financial institutions.
