Support for Liberal Party (LP) member Sen. Franklin Drilon’s bid for the Senate presidency is “firming up” in the ranks of the Nacionalista Party, according to the NP’s erstwhile presumptive aspirant for the Senate leadership.
All six reelectionist senators got a fresh mandate from the electorate in the just concluded midterm elections but it was Sen. Alan Peter Cayetano who gained most in terms of political capital after the recent campaign, a political science professor told the Inquirer on Friday.
Sen. Alan Peter Cayetano said on Wednesday he was not casting a moist eye on the Senate presidency despite pronouncements made by Sen. Miriam Defensor-Santiago that he could likely be one of two shoo-ins for the post.
Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile’s allies are bracing themselves for the possibility that he would not muster enough votes to preserve his hold on the post come 16th Congress.
Neophyte senators would do their countrymen a favor by going back to school and not making the mistake of entering the Senate with guns a-blazing (“huwag magpasiklab agad”).
The Commission on Elections (Comelec) went on its merry course Saturday night, proclaiming the final three senatorial winners even as criticisms and questions continued to come its way over its controversial decision to declare the victors in last Monday’s senatorial elections even before all the votes could be counted.
There will be no leadership change in the Senate when the new Congress convenes in July, Sen. Franklin Drilon told reporters last week.
The six senators whom the Commission on Elections (Comelec) proclaimed on Thursday the top winners of the May 13 senatorial race should return their certificates as their proclamation was invalid, according to a prominent election lawyer.
The motion to defer proclamation filed by the United Nationalist Alliance will be decided upon by the Commission on Elections Thursday morning.
A dead man, Fernando Poe Jr., the “King of Philippine Movies,” was the biggest winner in the midterm election just concluded.
With only three United Nationalist Alliance (UNA) candidates cracking the Magic 12, will it now be the end of the road for Juan Ponce Enrile as Senate President?
Grace Poe is thankful for landing on the top spot in the ongoing canvassing of votes for the Senate.
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