Cagayan cases start to pile up vs political clan
The Cagayan legal office is processing up to 15 complaints of alleged abusive behavior and harassment against members of the influential Mamba family during the recent midterm elections.
The Cagayan legal office is processing up to 15 complaints of alleged abusive behavior and harassment against members of the influential Mamba family during the recent midterm elections.
Civic leaders in Cagayan are appealing to President Benigno Aquino III to step in and stop what they said is the continuing harassment that perceived rivals of a powerful political clan in the province are suffering from.
A former taxi driver has put an end to three decades of the reign of a single political clan in Oriental Mindoro.
Was it just a week ago that we trooped to the polling places, patiently waited for hours and endured the oppressive heat to participate in the process of choosing candidates whom we hope are deserving of our trust, at least for the next three years?
“Yellow fever” finally caught up with the Jalosjos clan during Monday’s midterm elections, frustrating its aggressive appetite for dynastic expansion and trimming its political empire to its modest beginnings in 2001.
It was the morning after Leni Robredo’s big win—garnering about 80 percent of the votes that toppled the Villafuerte clan’s almost 40 years of dominance in the third congressional district of Camarines Sur.
The results of elections in Ilocos Norte merely proved that political dynasty is a nonissue among Ilocanos.
From Imelda Marcos to Manny Pacquiao, familiar names of Philippine political clans and celebrities dominated the ballots for Monday’s congressional and local elections, which will gauge popular support for the President’s anti-corruption drive and other reforms.
The Philippines is holding mid-term elections on Monday, which are seen as crucial to popular President Benigno Aquino’s reform agenda.
The Commission on Elections (Comelec) en banc has disqualified two scions of a powerful political clan in Samar from running for mayor and congressman for failure to meet the residency requirement.
Twenty-seven years after a public revolt ousted her dictator husband, Imelda Marcos is the Philippines’ ultimate political survivor: She dazzled voters with her bouffant hairstyle, oversized jewelry and big talk on the campaign trail this week bidding to keep her seat in Congress.
IBA, Zambales—Just into his first term, Zambales Gov. Hermogenes Ebdane Jr. has started flexing his political muscle in the province that had been dominated by political families for many years. His ally, Vice Gov. Ramon Lacbain II, expected the political party formed by Ebdane—Sulong Zambales Party (SZP)—to dominate the May 13 elections due to [...]
Oh no, not another Aquino. A Catholic priest on Monday said President Aquino’s youngest sister Kris should forget about her supposed plan to seek an elective post in 2016 out of “delicadeza” (sense of propriety).
