The camp of reelectionist Manila Vice Mayor Francisco Domagoso said Monday it is bent on filing charges against police officers who arrested him and five other fellow councilors over a bingo game last weekend in Sta. Cruz district, Manila.
Activist priest Fr. Robert Reyes received his cross of ash on Wednesday, the start of Lent, before preparing to pray for 13 minutes at 1 p.m.
Jose Miguel Arroyo, husband of former President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, looked relaxed and fit on Tuesday when he appeared at the Sandiganbayan, where he pleaded not guilty to charges he owned the choppers that were sold and passed off as brand new to the Philippine National Police.
There is no need for President Benigno Aquino III to request Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak to release fugitive Manuel Amalilio to Philippine authorities because foreign affairs and justice officials could work this out, Malacañang said Monday.
A poll watchdog said Friday that the Commission on Elections gave other non-marginalized groups it had disqualified from next year’s midterm elections “legal ammunition” when it accredited at least 16 partylist groups linked to President Benigno Aquino III and his predecessor, Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo.
The government has filed tax evasion charges against the lawyer of Andal Ampatuan Jr. for failing to declare his P20-million income last year which he used to purchase eight properties in Davao City from his client, the prime suspect in the November 2009 Maguindanao massacre.
On the third anniversary of the Maguindanao massacre on Friday, President Aquino said nothing about that political violence that took the lives of 58 people, including 32 journalists.
Henchmen of Ampatuan clan members, who are accused of involvement in the 2009 Maguindanao massacre, continue to roam free and make sure the influence of their bosses do not diminish, according to Maguindanao Gov. Esmael Mangudadatu.
The Commission on Elections has yet to complete the bidding process for a big bulk of election-related services to be used in the second nationwide automated elections next year. But it remained confident that it will be able to meet all the requirements by next month.
Political alliances for next year’s elections just got stranger after Senate candidates of the two major coalitions received the endorsement of a 3.8-million-strong left-leaning umbrella group that is fielding its own senatorial candidate as well.
Taxpayers should fund the country’s political parties instead of rich campaign donors so that politicians would not be beholden to vested interest groups, a senator said Saturday.
Insisting that Akbayan is already a party in power and that it currently enjoys government support and funding, multisectoral groups and individuals on Wednesday filed in the Commission on Elections a petition for its disqualification from the party-list elections next year.
Ailing former President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, who is once again in detention this time for plunder, is seeking a medical parole for prisoners suffering from an incapacitating physical condition, like herself.
