The United Nationalist Alliance (UNA) is consolidating local officials’ support in the run-up to the elections, and one of its candidates is working the phones to make sure friends and allies will stay with him up to May 13.
Who’s afraid of Kris Aquino? A senatorial candidate of the United Nationalist Alliance (UNA) on Saturday belittled the impact President Benigno Aquino III’s younger sister might have on the Team PNoy ticket at this stage of the campaign.
Intelligence alone does not necessarily make a good senator.
Like the beauty contestant who redeemed herself after tripping onstage, former Senate President Ernesto Maceda promptly stood up after stumbling on the platform during a campaign rally here Sunday afternoon.
The oldest candidate in the May 13 senatorial election said he has managed to keep up with the grueling campaign—thanks to modern stem cell therapy.
Senatorial candidates who participated in the First Inquirer Senate Forum on Wednesday vowed not to oppose an anti-dynasty bill should the measure be considered in the next Congress.
Don’t be too quick to count us out. “Older people have patience, have intelligence and have experience,” senatorial candidate Ernesto Maceda said in a television interview after the host pointed out that he was the oldest among those running for the Senate in the May 13 midterm elections.
The Commission on Audit (COA) should come out with a final report on questionable uses by lawmakers of their priority development assistance fund (PDAF) instead of releasing information by installment, a candidate of the United Nationalist Alliance (UNA) said here Saturday.
Is the senatorial race turning into a young man’s game? Seasoned politicians appear to be lagging behind much younger and arguably more popular candidates in recent surveys, with two senior former senators working double time to get voter recognition.
Senatorial candidates Francis Escudero and Ernesto Maceda said Tuesday that despite “minor” glitches monitored in the Commission of Elections’ precinct count optical scan (PCOS) machines, they rest their fate on the system, but with a hope that these malfunctions would not lead to fraud.
Across the country, Filipinos will hear more of “Gangnam Style,” the phenomenal hit of Korean rapper PSY, with the start of the election campaign for the midterm elections.
Former Senator Ernesto Maceda Jr. admitted Monday that he has undergone stem cell therapy that “rejuvenated” him, placing him among the ranks of politicians who underwent the treatment which includes ousted President Joseph Estrada and Senate President Juan Enrile.
Former Senator Ernesto Maceda Jr. on Monday lamented the entry of what he described as “low caliber” senators in the present chamber.
