Congressman na si boxing champ Manny Pacquiao.
Panalo siya laban sa negosyanteng si Roy Chiongbian. Kaya “Honorable” na ang magiging titulo nya.
Hindi na siya maa-aring ismolin ni Kris Aquino na nagpasaring sa kanya bago mag-eleksyun na talunan naman daw siya sa pulitika.
Congressman na rin ang dating spokesman ni Gloria Arroyo na si Anthony Golez. Binoto siya ng mga taga-Bacolod. Ganun din si dating Agriculture Secretary Arthur Yap.
by Tetch Torres
Inquirer.net
President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo on Wednesday appointed Supreme Court Associate Justice Renato Corona as the incoming chief justice upon the retirement of Chief Justice Reynato Puno on May 17.
Corona was appointed associate justice by Arroyo on April 9, 2002. He graduated law from the Ateneo Law School in 1974. While studying, he also worked full time in the Office of the Executive Secretary. He ranked 25th in the 1974 Bar examination out of 1,965 candidates.
After law school, he studied Master of Business Administration at the Ateneo Professional Schools and in 1981, he was accepted to the Master of Laws program in Harvard Law School, where he focused on foreign investment policies and the regulation of corporate and financial institutions.
Philippine Daily Inquirer
They are popular and controversial candidates that local pundits thought had victory in the palms of their hands.
Some are facing the possibility of defeat: Scandal-riddled former Agriculture Undersecretary Jocelyn “Jocjoc” Bolante, priest-on-leave Eddie Panlilio, actor Cesar Montano, former Justice Secretary Raul Gonzalez, and many former police and military generals.
Others have sealed or are sensing inevitable triumph: World boxing champion Manny Pacquiao, President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, actress Vilma Santos, the Marcoses, Singsons, Dutertes, Dazas and other political dynasties.
Bolante was being trounced by incumbent Gov. Victor Tanco in the closely watched gubernatorial race in Capiz, according to partial election results of the Commission on Elections (Comelec).
Dinky Soliman back to her old post
by Gil C. Cabacungan Jr., Philip Tubeza
Philippine Daily Inquirer
TARLAC CITY—Presidential front-runner Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III is seriously thinking of inviting his cousin Gilbert Teodoro to join the “talent search” for members of his proposed Cabinet.
In a press conference Tuesday, Aquino disclosed that he had checked out the ban on hiring relatives up to the fourth degree of consanguinity and found that it did not apply to Teodoro because their kinship was in the fifth degree.
Teodoro, the Lakas-Kampi-CMD standard-bearer, was among the candidates who conceded the presidential race to Aquino on Tuesday.
The Commission on Elections on Tuesday decided to stop releasing updates of last Monday’s elections on the request of lawyers of some presidential and vice…
.Based on the partial election results it is clear that I have significant lead over the next cointender in the presidential race. I am grateful…
Gilbert Teodoro, Richard Gordon, Eddie Villanueva, JC de los Reyes concede to Aquino.
Loren also concedes. Also Danny Lim, Ariel Querubin and Alex Lacson.
by Sophia M. Dedace
GMANews.TV
As the partial results of the May 10 polls continued to trickle in, Senator Manuel Villar Jr. on Tuesday congratulated his rival, Sen. Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III, the Liberal Party’s standard bearer who is leading the presidential race by a growing margin.
“Humaharap ako sa inyo ngayon upang tanggapin ang pasyang ito. Upang igalang ang boses ng sambayanang Pilipino. I congratulate Senator Noynoy Aquino on his victory. The challenges he and our country faces are enormous and we should all work together,” he said, reading a prepared statement during a press conference in Mandaluyong City.
For Sen. Manuel “Mar” Roxas II, the fight for the vice-presidency is not yet over despite the lead being enjoyed by Makati mayor Jejomar Binay.
Roxas still confident of winning“The race as between me and my closest competitor is indeed very tight. However, it is not for me, or anybody for that matter, to say if we’ve already lost,” Roxas said in a statement.
Roxas noted that the partial and official tally of the Commission on Elections (Comelec) as of 3:57 p.m. was based only on roughly 85 percent of all election returns.
“This means roughly five million voters in more than 11,000 precincts have yet to be taken into consideration,” he said.
Roughly half of the 11,000 precincts are expected to come from regions considered as bailiwicks of the Liberal Party, Roxas’ political group where he is in tandem with Sen. Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III, the leading presidential candidate.
“This just underscores that the fight is not yet over, and we should remain vigilant,” Roxas said.
According to GMA Network’s partial and unofficial tally as of 10:19 a.m. on Tuesday, Aquino remained at the top spot with 12,587,583 votes. Villar ranked third with 4,477,279 votes. Aquino and Villar were the fiercest contenders throughout the three-month presidential campaign.
A photograph of former President Joseph Estrada’s ballot without any vote for vice president has been circulating all over the Web, feeding speculations that he…
Sen. Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III and Makati Mayor Jejomar Binay are frontrunners in the presidential and vice presidential races based on the initial official election…
Today, let’s all exercise our right to choose people who will lead our country.
Pray that this election will be peaceful and will reflect the will of the people.
As we move to the age of automation, which is supposed to lessen fraud, it seems that there are things of the ugly past that persist up to this day. Like private armies and harassment of media.
Ed Montalvan of Mindanao Currents reports in VERA Files CoveritLive that two cameramen of IBC-13 were mauled, their cameras taken away, while recording two candidates distributing money in Camiguin in Northern Mindanao.
With television and internet, the public is apprised of what is happening all over the country in real time. Media is not alone in bringing news to the public. There are thousands of citizens all over the country doing journalist work.