INQToday: China interfering with PH’s May 2025 polls, says NSC’s Malaya
Here’s a quick roundup of today’s top stories
China interfering with PH’s May 2025 polls, says NSC’s Malaya
Indicators show that China is interfering with the Philippines’ upcoming midterm elections.
This was according to National Security Council (NSC) Assistant Director General Jonathan Malaya, who made the revelation in the Senate’s special panel on maritime and admiralty zones’ hearing on Thursday.
Comelec division DQ’d PBBM party-list over alleged irregularities
Regional partylist group Pilipinas Babangon Muli (PBBM) was disqualified by a division of the Commission on Elections (Comelec) over alleged irregularities in the declared residence of its nominees.
PBBM is a regional party-list seeking to represent Calabarzon.
Cardinal: Prayer, not politics, marks selection of next pope
Just to be clear, the conclave is not like Philippine elections.
For one, it will be marked not by fanfare but by prayers, said Cardinal Pablo Virgilio David on Wednesday, describing the much-anticipated process of selecting the 267th pontiff and successor to the late Pope Francis.
