Saying he has moved on, former Bukidnon Representative Juan Miguel “Migz” Zubiri said he saw no need for Senator Aquilino “Koko” Pimentel III to treat him to lunch as they have already reconciled even before the May 13 elections.
With the senatorial elections over and done with, reelected Sen. Aquilino Pimentel III is now looking to “patch things up” with rival Juan Miguel Zubiri after their bitter quarrel during the campaign.
This time no longer a victim of election fraud, reelected Sen. Aquilino “Koko” Pimentel III, however, would prefer to keep the chairmanship of the Senate committee on electoral reforms when the next Congress convenes in July.
This time no longer a victim of election fraud, reelected Senator Aquilino Pimentel III still would prefer to keep the chairmanship of the Senate committee on electoral reforms when the next Congress convenes in July.
Vice President Jejomar Binay and reelected Senators Aquilino Pimentel III and Francis Escudero are moving behind a call by poll watchdog groups for an inquiry into alleged discrepancies between random manual counts and computerized tallies in the May 13 elections.
Senator Aquilino Pimentel III wants the Senate to look into alleged discrepancies between the election results transmitted by the precinct count optical scanners and those culled from the random manual audit.
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.
“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.
Sen. Aquilino “Koko” Pimentel III has given a new meaning to his initials KP. It now stands for “Kalaban ng Pandaraya” (Fraud Crusader), a moniker for his campaign against all forms of fraud that apparently stems from his bitter struggle to claim his Senate seat.
Re-electionist Senator Aquilino Pimentel III is considering the filing of libel charges against former Senator Juan Miguel Zubiri, who said in a forum that Pimentel’s former wife Jewel once told him and wife Audrey that she was a battered wife.
Former senator Juan Miguel Zubiri said he was open to ending the word war between him and Senator Aquilino Pimentel III even as he accused the latter anew of domestic violence.
The animosity between reelectionist Sen. Aquilino Pimentel III and former Bukidnon Rep. Juan Miguel Zubiri has exploded in only the third week of the senatorial campaign.
Senator Aquilino “Koko” Pimentel III on Tuesday asked his political nemesis, Senator Juan Miguel Zubiri, to explain his free-for-all health-care advertisement, insinuating it was “too good to be true.”
