Elections

by Franco Luna – Philstar.com, 22 Dec 2021 MANILA, Philippines —It’s firming up to be Sen. Ferdinand Marcos, Jr., Vice President Leni Robredo, and everyone else for the 2022 polls, with the former senator leading all candidates and the latter slowly improving, a survey by private pollster Pulse Asia suggests.

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by Philstar.com, 18 Nov 2021 MANILA, Philippines — As far as businessmen are concerned, the job of the next president would be a very difficult one.

by Michael Punongbayan – The Philippine Star, 15 Nov 2021 MANILA, Philippines — Broadcast journalist Raffy Tulfo with a 68.4 voter preference, Taguig Rep. Alan Peter Cayetano (59.9 percent) and Sorsogon Gov. Francis Escudero (57.3 percent) have topped Pulse Asia’s latest pre-election senatorial survey.

If Leni doesn’t cut a deal with Isko/Pacquiao/Ping, Marcos will. pic.twitter.com/jCpnxMi35W — oli r. (@ohlistic) November 13, 2021

Leni doesn’t need to win in the North. What she needs is to reduce Marcos’ lead there. Here are the results of 2016 in Abra, Benguet, Cagayan and Ilocos Norte. Robredo will need to reduce this lead in 2022. pic.twitter.com/9bNBDKNqI1 — JRDC (@JRDCastillo30) October 31, 2021

By Ruben D. Torres, 29 Oct 2021, Manila Times THE May 2022 national elections is an opportune time for workers to present a labor agenda that candidates may consider in order to advance the interests of labor in the country.

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by Leonardo Q. Montemayor – The Philippine Star, 20 Oct 2021 Vice-President Leni Robredo has always struck me as a decent, caring and sincere person and public servant

by Rhodina Villanueva – The Philippine Star, 20 Oct 2021 MANILA, Philippines — A female peasant group has decried the fake party-list groups that emerged during the filing of certificates of candidacy for the next year’s elections.

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by Robertzon Ramirez – The Philippine Star, 16 Oct 2021 MANILA, Philippines — Female youths topped the number of newly registered voters of the Commission on Elections (Comelec) as it already recorded 4,094,614 new voters, aged 18 to 21, for the May 2022 national and local elections.

by Charmie Joy Pagulong – The Philippine Star, 11 Oct 2021 (First of two parts) Several local showbiz personalities, beauty queens, athletes and broadcasters are trying their luck in politics in the coming May 2022 elections.

Nanguna si #FrontlinePilipinas anchor Raffy Tulfo sa senatorial preference para sa 2022 elections, base sa pinakabagong survey ng Pulse Asia. #BilangPilipino2022 pic.twitter.com/ee7V5LtU2e — News5 (@News5PH) September 29, 2021

by ABS-CBN News, 27 Sep 2021 MANILA—The Makabayan coalition on Monday endorsed the senatorial bids of Bayan Muna chair Neri Colmenares and Kilusang Mayo Uno chair Bong Labog and unveiled their party-list nominees for the 2022 elections.

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by Atty. Josephus B. Jimenez (The Freeman), 23 Aug 2021 The next president has seven major, major problems to tackle. Seven calvaries where he or she can be crucified; first, the health crisis; second, economic devastation; third, social ills; fourth, national security threats; fifth, unabated corruption; sixth, the peoples’ diminishing trust in the government; and…

by Janvic Mateo – The Philippine Star, 21 Aug 2021 MANILA, Philippines — Various groups will launch this weekend their respective campaigns to urge Vice President Leni Robredo to run for president next year.

by Manuel L. Quezon III, 11 Aug 2021 When Chavit Singson signed on to the Nationalist People’s Coalition (NPC), it seemed to me the way was being paved for that party to become Manny Pacquiao’s new political home. After all, the man who calls the shots, Ramon Ang, had said Pacman is a strong contender…

by Segundo ECLAR romero, 6 Aug 2021 Did VP Leni just pull the rug from under 1Sambayan? Much of the Filipino nation that wants an end to the Duterte regime see in 1Sambayan the mechanism for uniting the opposition to wage this fight. But when VP Leni entered exploratory talks with Senators Ping Lacson and…

by Federico D. Pascual Jr. (The Philippine Star), 25 Jul 2021 If President Duterte runs for vice president in the May 2022 elections as he has said often enough, he will likely have former senator Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos as his presidential partner.

by Cielito F. Habito, 20 Jul 2021 Will next year’s presidential election boost our economy’s recovery from the deepest slump seen in our part of the world as a result of the ongoing pandemic? Based on our historical experience, there appears to be reason to expect so. Will the coming election year be any different?

By Patricia Denise M. Chiu, 18 Jul 2021 More than 300 journalists across the country have signed a pledge to provide fact-based reporting and help guard the integrity of the 2022 national and local elections.

by Atty. Josephus B. Jimenez (The Freeman), 14 Jul 2021 If the candidates for 2022 do not take a moment and look back at the hard and bitter lessons learned in 2016, then they are bound to suffer the same hardships and bitterness again. Lesson 1.) Too many candidates of the opposition makes the administration…

By Dona Z. Pazzibugan, 12 Jul 2021 Beginning October, the Commission on Elections (Comelec) will consider the ads of political candidates in social media to be part of the candidates’ campaign expenses for the May 9, 2022, elections and will be regulated as such.

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(Philstar.com), 25 May 2021 MANILA, Philippines — “Six more years” – this is the collective cry of the Duterte Parin Movement as they push for the election of Davao City Mayor Inday Sara Duterte, who is believed to effectively continue and further innovate on the legacy of her father, President Duterte, in the upcoming 2022…

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