Aquino: No to Charter change
By Michael Lim Ubac, Norman Bordadora
President Aquino has a ready answer for those tirelessly reviving Charter change (Cha-cha) at every opportunity: No.

President Aquino has a ready answer for those tirelessly reviving Charter change (Cha-cha) at every opportunity: No.

President Benigno Aquino on Tuesday secured big wins in midterm elections seen as vital to his ambitious reform agenda, but the success of famous, graft-tainted rivals raised alarm.

All 12 senatorial candidates of Team PNoy were full force at a miting de avance Friday at the Amoranto Sports Complex in Quezon City, their last hurrah before the midterm elections on Monday.

Hundreds of people mostly wearing yellow shirts flocked at the Plaza Hernandez in Tondo, Manila on Thursday for the miting de avance of re-electionist Manila Mayor Alfredo Lim’s team.

President Benigno Aquino arrived in Camarines Sur Friday as part of a last-ditch effort to campaign for the Liberal Party’s provincial and district candidates in the province who are up against formidable and well-entrenched political clans.

Popular TV host Kris Aquino said she is considering a mayoralty or gubernatorial post in Tarlac in case she decides to run for public office in 2016.

Malacañang ordered law enforcement bodies, on Monday, to dismantle all makeshift checkpoints set up by the New People’s Army (NPA) in the countryside after Senator Teofisto “TG” Guingona III questioned the rebels’ authority to set them up in a country under “one government” and governed by “one President.”
An uncle of President Benigno Aquino said the battle in the midterm elections was not between the administration and an opposition party, but between pro-Aquino forces supporting different candidates for president in 2016.

TARLAC CITY—With two of the most influential political personalities in the country coming from Tarlac, how are local alliances in the province shaping up? It is still President Aquino’s home turf as Tarlaqueños await his confirmation of local candidates. But Tarlac remains very much the political nest of Eduardo “Danding” Cojuangco Jr., the President’s [...]

President Benigno Aquino III has arrived at the venue of the Liberal Party’s proclamation rally.
President Benigno Aquino’s disappointment over the poor state of the summer capital’s environment has sparked a debate among Baguio officials over the correct number of the city’s annual tourists.
House Minority leader and Quezon Rep. Danilo Suarez on Tuesday defended his family from the tirades of President Benigno Aquino during a campaign sortie of the administration senatorial ticket in Quezon province.

Another woman has joined the Commission on Audit, making it an all-woman commission.