Senatorial candidate Nancy Binay continued to refuse to debate with Team PNoy’s Risa Hontiveros, but she gave the struggling candidate a tip to improve her popularity rating in surveys: Hold more motorcades.
In the homestretch of political campaigning, candidates have been scurrying to clinch the “market votes” or votes for sale, to ensure their victories, a social science instructor in a state university here said.
Lucena Bishop Emilio Marquez expressed alarm Tuesday over election-related violence in Quezon after two community organizers of re-electionist Gov. David Suarez were shot dead in Tiaong town late Monday night.
Nationalist People’s Coalition (NPC) stalwarts hinted at a possible withdrawal of support for the political party and allies of the Team PNoy candidate harassing Senator Loren Legarda.
Senator Loren Legarda allegedly failed to declare as part of her assets a posh condominium unit on Park Avenue in New York for four years, and did so only in 2011 just before she and the other senators convened as an impeachment court to try then Supreme Court Chief Justice Renato Corona.
President Benigno Aquino III reiterated his previous announcement of rice self-sufficiency in the Philippines by yearend when he went on a second campaign sortie for the local candidates of the Liberal Party in the Quezon province on Monday.
Four persons were killed while six others, including the mayor of Nunungan, Lanao del Norte, were wounded after being ambushed by unidentified armed men Thursday evening.
Intense heat and over fatigue knocked down San Juan Rep. JV Ejercito with three weeks to go before the May 13 senatorial election, according to his statement released by his campaign team on Wednesday.
Two persons were killed and three others injured when a heavy equipment payloader being used in setting up a stage for a Liberal Party political rally in Macalelon, Quezon, lost its brakes and rammed a group of people Monday afternoon, police said.
Senatorial candidate Jamby Madrigal was one of only two Team PNoy bets who traveled for several hours by land to attend its rally in the provincial capitol gym here on Monday.
A campaign coordinator of a re-electionist candidate for Congress in Batangas was shot dead while on board a motorcycle traveling along San Juan town in Batangas Sunday noon, police said.
Senatorial candidate Ramon Magsaysay Jr. knew he was doing something right when several youngsters approached him at the Naia Terminal 2 earlier this week and asked whether he was “Ser Chief’s friend.”
BAGUIO CITY, Philippines —- Senatorial candidate Marwil Llasos of the Ang Kapatiran Party introduced himself to students of Baguio on Thursday, emphasizing his simple beginnings as the son of a single mom, his growing up years in public schools, his entry into the UP College of Law and his career in law. Dapper in [...]
