Posts Tagged by Liberal party

Drilon: ‘Please don’t consider the committees as rewards’

MANILA, Philippines?Senator Franklin Drilon protested on Tuesday insinuations that he and his colleagues in the Liberal Party had been rewarded with major committee chairmanships in the Senate. ‘Please don’t consider the committees as rewards,’ said Drilon, chairman of the Liberal party, in a television interview Read More

Information Bill backers pin hopes on Aquino III

PROPONENTS AND BACKERS OF THE ALL BUT DEAD Freedom of Information bill are pinning all their hopes on presumptive president-elect Benigno ‘Noynoy’ Aquino III. Read More

Top 2 bets among top 20 RP ‘advertisers’ Villar, Aquino marketed like soap, shampoo, deodorant

By Malou C. Read More

Aquino promises to dance if he wins

MANILA, Philippines?Liberal Party presidential candidate Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III vowed to dance like South African leader Nelson Mandela if he succeeds in seeing President Macapagal-Arroyo leave after nearly a decade in office. ‘One… Read More

Will the real ‘secret’ candidate of the Arroyos please stand up? Villar raises specter of ‘Gloriaquino’

BY JP LOPEZ NACIONALISTA party presidential bet Manuel Villar and his team yesterday turned the tables against their chief rival, the Liberal Party, saying the Arroyo administration could have funded the LP campaign and the party Read More

MANUEL VILLAR –> Last as president, first without Mike

BY REGINA BENGCO LUBAO, Pampanga Read More

TV SPINS OF TOP BETS –> Noynoy’s take on Gibo actions Top bets for president …

BY WENDELL VIGILIA “WELCOME to the club.” This was the message of Liberal Party standard-bearer Sen. Read More

Let Cebuanos decide, Teodoro tells Osme

CEBU CITY, Philippines?It is the Cebuanos who will decide the presidential candidate they will write on the ballots. The camp of administration standard-bearer Gilbert ‘Gibo’ Teodoro yesterday gave this rejoinder to the claim of former Sen. Read More

Magnitude 5 quake hits off Catanduanes

MANILA, Philippines?A magnitude 5 earthquake struck off Catanduanes at 2:17 a.m. Saturday,… Read More

Clueless, flip-flopping candidate

FRONTLINE 03/21/2010 From the statements he utters on several positions taken, it really looks like Noynoy Aquino has no understanding of how things work in government. Of course, when it comes to flip-flopping political statements, Noynoy is proving to one and all just how much of a political opportunist or the trapo he derides, he has become Read More

MANUEL VILLAR –> Removal of Ninoy, Cory streamers assailed

BY WENDELL VIGILIA NAIA to just IA? Liberal Party standard-bearer Benigno Simeon “Noynoy” Aquino III yesterday slammed the Arroyo administration for removing posters and streamers of his parents along Roxas boulevard on the belief that it is boosting his presidential bid. Read More

What debate? Aquino, Villar camps in the dark

MANILA, Philippines?If only he knows when and where, Liberal Party standard-bearer Sen. Benigno ‘Noynoy’ Aquino III is raring to debate Nacionalista Party candidate Sen. Read More

MANUEL VILLAR –> Magdalo for Villar, but with conditions

BY ASHZEL HACHERO MANNY Villar, presidential candidate of the Nacionalista Party, and Manuel Roxas, vice presidential bet of the Liberal Party, have gotten the support of the Magdalo group which said it could deliver at least 250,000 votes. The “price” of the support: He will not enter into an alliance with President Arroyo; and he will pursue the Magdalo advocacy on poverty alleviation, anti-corruption, peace in Mindanao, and reform and modernization of the Armed Forces. Read More

What Palace would be like if Aquino wins

MANILA, Philippines?Sen. Benigno Aquino III on Friday gave a preview of what Malaca Read More

Roxas accused of watering down ‘cheaper medicines’ law

ILOILO CITY, Philippines?Training its guns on Liberal Party vice presidential candidate Mar Roxas, the Nacionalista Party accused the senator, on Thursday, of watering down the Cheaper Medicines Act by blocking drug price regulation, and hinted that a P1-billion lobby fund allegedly put up by pharmaceutical companies may have influenced Roxas. Iloilo Vice Governor Rolex Suplico and 4th district Representative Ferjenel Biron, leading advocates of the law providing for low-cost, affordable and quality medicines, made this stunning claim at a press conference at Hotel del Rio here. Suplico originally wrote and filed the bill when he was still congressman in the 13th Congress, but Biron refiled… Read More

Legarda calls for quick release of El Ni

BAROTAC NUEVO, Iloilo, Philippines?The once green now parched and cracked, but why is the government not releasing yet El iNi Read More

CARP ? now or never

BLURBAL THRUSTS 02/14/2010 According to a text message that is making the rounds, there are thousands of Central Luzon farmers rejoicing over the recent announcement of Liberal Party (LP) presidential candidate Sen. Noynoy Aquino that he had somehow secured the approval of his family, meaning the powerful Cojuangco clan of Tarlac whence his famous mother, the late President Corazon Cojuangco Aquino comes from, to finally quit procrastinating and proceed with the distribution to intended beneficiaries of some 6,000 hectares of their Hacienda Luisita, in accordance with the dictates of the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Law (CARP), within five years or by 2015. Because then they wouldn?t mind… Read More

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