While other candidates were trending in Twitter and Google searches, presidential candidate Ferdinand Marcos Jr. is “winning the battle with the Filipino people.”
Partido Reporma standard-bearer Panfilo ‘Ping’ Lacson expressed his commitment to push for a legislation that would institutionalize higher compensation and benefit packages for barangay healthcare workers (BHW) nationwide under his administration.
The Duterte-led faction of the PDP-Laban party will make a decision on who to endorse for president before the local election campaign period starts on March 25, secretary general Melvin Matibag said.
Senator Risa Hontiveros is urging the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) and the Commission on Elections (Comelec) not to implement a higher withholding tax on the compensation of teachers doing poll duties in this year’s national and local elections.
Despite the improving pandemic situation in the Philippines, Senator Bong Go has urged the government to strengthen measures against other threats to the country’s economic recovery, particularly the soaring oil and gas prices brought by the Russia-Ukraine conflict.
Senatorial candidate and Sorsogon Governor Chiz Escudero emerged as the top senatorial candidate among students of the Philippine Normal University (PNU) Mindanao campus, garnering 59.46 percent of the total respondents in the recently-concluded PNU System-Wide Mock Elections.
Reelectionist Senator Risa Hontiveros on Tuesday said she is “immensely thankful” for the support of a Bangsamoro organization which has endorsed her re-election, and vowed that she will continue to work for peace and economic recovery in the Bangsamoro region.
Malacañang has clarified that President Rodrigo Duterte did not endorse the presidential bid of Vice President Leni Robredo.
Cabinet Secretary Melvin Alvarez Matibag on Tuesday urged Congress to review the country’s oil deregulation law amid the rise in the prices of petroleum products in the country.
Administration Senator Francis Tolentino rallied various Filipino-American groups in support of UniTeam presidential bet former Sen. Ferdinand ‘Bongbong’ Marcos Jr. and his running mate, incumbent Davao City Mayor Inday Sara Duterte.
