Amid President Aquino’s consistent push for a 12-0 win for his senatorial slate, candidates of the rival United Nationalist Alliance said the independence of the Senate was at stake should the legislature be filled with his allies.
Opposition protesters clashed with Islamists near the headquarters of Egypt’s ruling Muslim Brotherhood in the capital on Friday, injuring more than 120 people, state news agency MENA reported.
Myanmar opposition icon Aung San Suu Kyi has voiced confidence that the country’s powerful military will support changes to the constitution that would allow her to become president.
Syrian opposition factions which agreed on Sunday in Qatar to form a new coalition to fight President Bashar al-Assad have elected cleric Ahmed al-Khatib to head the bloc, dissidents said.
Russia’s opposition went online Saturday to vote for new leaders to spearhead the drive against Vladimir Putin and regain the momentum lost since his thumping return to the presidency in May.
Sen. Gregorio Honasan, a member of the opposition United Nationalist Alliance (UNA), said he hoped President Aquino would appoint a “nonpartisan” secretary of the interior and local government in view of next year’s midterm elections.
Vice President Jejomar Binay’s United Nationalist Alliance (UNA) will be part of the political opposition, though a “constructive” one, according to former President Joseph Estrada.
Senate Minority Leader Alan Cayetano on Monday urged the Aquino administration to stop labeling members of the opposition as “pro-Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo.”
Myanmar’s opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi will on Saturday begin campaigning in the constituency near Yangon where she is standing for parliament after years of official marginalisation.
In a sign of dissension within the minority bloc in the House of Representatives, Albay Representative Edcel Lagman on Thursday accused former President and Pampanga Representative Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo and some of her allies of plotting to oust him as minority leader.
The lack of a quorum threatened to derail Tuesday’s plenary deliberations on the proposed P1.8 trillion budget for 2012 but House leaders were quick to dismiss suggestions of a possible boycott by the opposition. The session began at 10 a.m. but was suspended almost immediately because of the many vacant chairs in the session hall. [...]
Riding a wave of support among rural voters, Thailand’s incoming premier plans a raft of populist measures to narrow the rich-poor divide, at the risk of higher inflation and public debt.
Opposition lawmakers are training their guns on the “kakampi, kaklase and kabarilan” of President Benigno Aquino III whom Malacañang has purportedly been coddling. Speaking on Wednesday at a press conference, House Minority Leader Edcel Lagman announced the filing of a yet unnumbered resolution calling for the investigation of Interior Undersecretary Rico Puno for alleged bribery, [...]
