Malacañang described the 9-3 win of Team PNoy in the Senate race, as well as the overwhelming victory of administration candidates in local polls, as a resounding endorsement of President Benigno Aquino III’s ‘straight path’ agenda.
Step aside Loren Legarda, the perennial No. 1 in preelection surveys of voters’ preferred senatorial candidates.
Pastor Apollo Quiboloy, the founder of the religious group “Kingdom of Jesus Christ, The Name Above Every Name,” whose blessings political candidates have sought in the previous presidential elections, has announced the list of 12 senatorial bets his flock will support in the upcoming May 13 elections.
Senatorial candidate Nancy Binay continued to refuse to debate with Team PNoy’s Risa Hontiveros, but she gave the struggling candidate a tip to improve her popularity rating in surveys: Hold more motorcades.
The Iglesia Ni Cristo officially informed their followers in Wednesday night’s worship that the church has picked seven Team PNoy senatorial candidates and five United Nationalist Alliance bets for their bloc voting on May 13.
The Iglesia ni Cristo (INC) is leaning toward a 7-5 senatorial slate favoring the administration coalition’s Team PNoy over the “opposition” United Nationalist Alliance (UNA), as the block-voting religious sect tries to appease both President Aquino and Vice President Jejomar Binay.
Nationalist People’s Coalition (NPC) stalwarts hinted at a possible withdrawal of support for the political party and allies of the Team PNoy candidate harassing Senator Loren Legarda.
Leftist organizations have found common cause with President Benigno Aquino III: the victory of some Team PNoy senatorial bets.
Senator Loren Legarda allegedly failed to declare as part of her assets a posh condominium unit on Park Avenue in New York for four years, and did so only in 2011 just before she and the other senators convened as an impeachment court to try then Supreme Court Chief Justice Renato Corona.
President Aquino may have accepted his explanation for hosting opposition candidates campaigning in his turf but Albay Gov. Joey Salceda may still be investigated by the Liberal Party.
Manila mayoral candidate and former president Joseph Estrada has announced that he is endorsing three candidates for senator not in the line up of the United Nationalist Alliance — Grace Poe, Jesus Is Lord leader Bro. Eddie Villanueva and Puerto Princesa Mayor Ed Hagedorn.
President Benigno Aquino III reiterated his previous announcement of rice self-sufficiency in the Philippines by yearend when he went on a second campaign sortie for the local candidates of the Liberal Party in the Quezon province on Monday.
Intense heat and over fatigue knocked down San Juan Rep. JV Ejercito with three weeks to go before the May 13 senatorial election, according to his statement released by his campaign team on Wednesday.
