The Liberal Party’s endeavor to become the ruling party for the 2016 presidential elections is going to be a much longer and harder journey, as far as Central and Northern Luzon are concerned.
Vice Mayor Belen Fernandez took over as acting mayor of this city on Thursday, after Mayor Benjamin Lim suffered a stroke and was brought to Metro Manila for treatment.
If there’s a big winner in last Monday’s mayoral races in Pangasinan, it is Gwen Palafox-Yamamoto, a 35-year-old councilor who is on her first term in this western Pangasinan town.
The ballots have been counted in many provinces, giving fresh mandate to new leaders by July.
Three Army soldiers were wounded after they clashed with armed men in Pinukpuk, Kalinga, on Wednesday, police said.
The Liberal Party’s (LP) gubernatorial candidates in Pampanga and Pangasinan lost in Monday’s polls, giving the administration a resounding defeat in these areas where issues of corruption and illegal gambling were highlighted during the campaign.
A bullet-riddled man whom Jose Galera found outside his house in Barangay (village) Sagap in Bangued, Abra, on Monday, Election Day, is a mystery that needs solving.
The results of elections in Ilocos Norte merely proved that political dynasty is a nonissue among Ilocanos.
To Dr. Flor Amor Monta, a political science professor of the Central Luzon State University (CLSU) in the Science City of Muñoz, the real winner in the May 13 elections in Nueva Ecija is the province itself.
Former President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo did not vote on Monday, a contrast to the five previous elections where she voted as early as 7 a.m.
In the gubernatorial race in Pangasinan, unofficial and partial results from the monitoring of the Nationalist People’s Coalition (NPC) showed reelectionist Gov. Amado Espino Jr. leading Alaminos Mayor Hernani Braganza.
Unopposed candidates in northern and central Luzon can take it easy until Election Day when they troop to their voting precincts to make sure that at least one vote would be credited to their names.
It’s raining grocery items and rice in this city, with political candidates wooing voters with bags of goodies as Election Day nears.
