As investors and analysts ponder whether the Philippines would remain in a sweet spot beyond 2016 when the country elects its next President, New York-based think tank Global Source listed four “viable” presidential contenders from the administration party who could challenge incumbent Vice President Jejomar Binay.
Movie actress Susan Roces returned to her roots in this city on Wednesday to campaign for her daughter, Grace Poe-Llamanzares, a candidate for senator with the administration Team PNoy coalition.
Grace Poe-Llamanzares’ decision to exclusively campaign with Team PNoy proved to be the right decision as she moved up in the latest Social Weather Station poll, a week after being junked by the opposition United Nationalist Alliance, a spokesperson for the administration coalition said on Tuesday.
The lines are now “very clear” between the reformists and the opposition now that the United Nationalist Alliance (UNA) dropped its three guest candidates, a spokesman of Team PNoy said on Thursday.
“Is that bad news?” was how Senator Francis “Chiz” Escudero commented in jest when asked to react on the decision of the United Nationalist Alliance (UNA) to drop him and two other candidates from its slate.
Senate candidate Grace Poe-Llamanzares, a daughter of the late actor and presidential candidate Fernando Poe Jr., Tuesday night sounded like she would be taking Cebuanos to task for not voting for her father in 2004.
The United Nationalist Alliance (UNA) made good on its threat not to campaign for the “common” candidates who refuse to join its sorties when it went barnstorming in Pampanga on Wednesday.
The plan to drop the three common senatorial candidates his United Nationalist Alliance shares in common with the administration’s Team PNoy — Grace Poe-Llamanzares and senators Francis Escudero and Loren Legarda —is not yet final, former President Joseph Estrada said Friday.
The election campaign period hasn’t officially started, so anything goes.
Deposed president and convicted plunderer Joseph Estrada assailed the Liberal Party declaration that it would not allow its “common” candidates with the rival United Nationalist Alliance (UNA) to join the campaign sorties of the UNA.
Remembering how her late father, renowned actor and presidential candidate Fernando Poe Jr., protested poll fraud in 2004, Grace Poe-Llamanzares on Tuesday appealed to the Commission on Elections (Comelec) to ensure clean and fair midterm polls next year.
Movie and Television Review and Classification Board (MTRCB) Chairperson Grace Poe Llamanzares filed her certificate of candidacy for senator at the Comelec main office Tuesday.
Vice President Jejomar Binay’s United Nationalist Alliance (UNA) may have announced her inclusion in its senatorial lineup but Grace Poe-Llamanzares’ next move would hinge on President Aquino’s “final decision.”
