Senator Bong Go on Tuesday defended President Rodrigo Duterte’s “red-tagging” of Makabayan bloc organizations, saying that the latter is privy to several pieces of information about Leftist groups given his experiences as former mayor of Davao City.
Detained Senator Leila de Lima on Wednesday slammed President Rodrigo Duterte for devoting a large portion of his televised speech on Monday to a tirade red-tagging members of the Makabayan bloc.
President Rodrigo Duterte has accused the Makabayan bloc and militant groups Gabriela and Bayan of participating in a grand conspiracy led by the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) to overthrow the government.
At the resumption of the Senate national defense and security, peace, unification and reconciliation committee hearing on the “red-tagging” of government critics, prominent Makabayan activists appeared to refute claims of military leaders that they belonged to the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) and were active recruiters of the New People’s Army (NPA).
While the distribution of the first tranche of the P5,000-P8,000 cash aid for families affected by the pandemic is still incomplete, the coverage of the second tranche of the social amelioration program (SAP) has been greatly reduced, according to the Makabayan bloc.
Bayan Muna party-list Rep. Ferdinand Gaite on Tuesday expressed support for the call of transport groups to allow public utility vehicles, especially jeepneys, to ply the road again even under the extension of general community quarantine in Metro Manila up to June 30.
About 13.6 million poor families have yet to receive the long-overdue social amelioration package (SAP) from the government as another lockdown extension looms after its April 30 deadline, members of the Makabayan bloc in the Lower House said.
Lawmakers belonging to the Makabayan bloc have scored organizers of the 30th Southeast Asian Games for allocating only a mere portion of the multi-billion fund for the Philippines’ hosting of the bi-annual sporting event.
Makabayan bloc, 48 other lawmakers seek P15B supplemental budget for NFA.
Bayan Muna party-list Rep. Carlos Zarate on Thursday said neither he nor any of his five colleagues in the Makabayan bloc partook of the supposed P100-million allocation per lawmaker in the proposed P4.1-trillion budget for 2020.
Makabayan senatorial bet and Bayan Muna chairman Neri Colmenares on Wednesday said Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana’s recent move of asking China to leave Pag-asa island was “too little too late.”
Decades of allowing regional wage boards to set minimum wages have eroded the real incomes of workers and it is time for Congress to step in and give workers a substantial increase in wages and salaries, according to Makabayan senatorial candidate Neri Colmenares.
With the passage of rice tariffication measure into law, the Philippines will be put in an unenviable position as an “import-dependent” country that will be “begging for cheaper rice,” according to ACT Teachers Representatives Antonio Tinio and France Castro.
Bayan Muna Partylist Rep. Carlos Isagani Zarate on Monday condemned the brutal killing of nine farmers in Negros Occidental last Saturday.
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Militant lawmakers and a group of concerned citizens on Thursday filed a petition before the Supreme Court (SC) seeking to intervene on the quo warranto petition filed by the Office of Solicitor General (OSG) seeking to nullify the appointment of Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno.
House Majority Leader Rudy Fariñas said it’s not the right time to comment on the petition filed by members of the Makabayan bloc asking the Supreme Court to block the implementation of the Tax Reform for Acceleration and Inclusion law.
Makabayan bolts House majority coalition, forms new independent bloc
Makabayan partylist lawmakers filed House Resolution No. 1265 urging the House of Representatives to investigate the August. 30 incident that led to the violent dispersal of residents protesting the demolition of their houses along the banks of the Manggahan Floodway in Barangay Sta. Lucia, Pasig City.
The government’s gatekeeper of squatter relocation believes there will be more housing occupation of idle government housing projects by the left-leaning Kalipunan ng Damayang Mahihirap (Kadamay) until the the housing backlog is resolved.
Members of the Makabayan bloc are becoming more and more brazen in attacking their supposed ally, President Rodrigo Duterte.
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