Politics

Old names dominate the list published by Pulse Asia MANILA, Philippines – Comedian-turned-politician Senator Vicente “Tito” Sotto III topped a new senatorial survey released by Pulse Asia, with 51.6% of voters saying they will vote for him. He overtook by a very slight margin former frontrunner Francis “Kiko” Pangilinan who got the support of 51.5%.…

More than a year before the 2016 polls, President Benigno Aquino III sought to separate his allies from his foes during a Palace event attended on Friday by members of his Cabinet, administration lawmakers and pro-government civil society groups.

(Updated 11:38 a.m.) President Benigno Aquino III’s approval and trust ratings plunged after the Supreme Court (SC) declared his administration’s Disbursement Acceleration Program (DAP) as partially unconstitutional, pollster Pulse Asia said Monday.

Public satisfaction with President Benigno Aquino III fell 20 points in the second quarter of 2014 to a “moderate” +25 rating, its lowest since he assumed the presidency in 2010, a poll conducted by Social Weather Stations showed.

What is happening in our country now really calls for some radical and drastic changes. Such changes can only be realized through a revolution. This is not a revolution that entails the toppling of this government by raising arms against it. This is a revolution staged at the polling precincts starting at the 2016 elections.…

Vice President Jejomar C. Binay’s decision to leave the PDP-Laban and form his own party in preparation for his presidential run in 2016 has prompted a few others to announce their own electoral plans but to declare at the same time that it is much too early for them to take the plunge. I speak…

From the time President Benigno Aquino 3rd was sworn into office on June 30, 2010, and for nearly four years running, the Aquino administration has been implementing a political program and strategy that is called in Washington DC, as “the Permanent Campaign.”

MANILA, Philippines – A large number of Filipinos are generally happy and satisfied with their lives, a December 2013 survey by the Social Weather Stations (SWS) showed.

Not again. Not another formulaic diatribe ridiculing and prophesying the decline, obsolescence, and inevitable doom of the Philippine Left. The Left was supposed to have disintegrated many, many years ago after the fall of Berlin, the internal split in the 1990s, and the rise of neoliberal globalization as the supreme doctrine of our time. But…

The 7.2-percent GDP rise in 2013 is meaningless to most Filipinos. Government leaders know it, but can’t bring themselves to change it. In money terms, the economy gained P12 trillion in services and goods last year. Divided by the 100 million Filipinos, that’s P120,000 per capita income for every man, woman and child. Meaning, P10,000…

President Aquino’s performance rating dropped 6 percentage points in the Pulse Asia survey last month, amid widespread criticisms over his administration’s purportedly slow and inefficient response in the aftermath of Supertyphoon “Yolanda.”

PUBLIC SATISFACTION with President Benigno S. C. Aquino III has hit a low point, falling to “good” from “very good” in a Social Weather Stations (SWS) survey conducted last month.

No face will ever be lost in the crowd these days, thanks to Big Data. This observation was proven again in the aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombing.

DEFINITION NEEDED: Section 26 of Article II (Declaration of State Policies) of the Constitution is clear: “The State shall guarantee equal access to opportunities for public service and prohibit political dynasties as may be defined by law.”

MANILA, Philippines – The Supreme Court (SC) has junked with finality petitions filed by several groups seeking to stop political dynasties.

IN ADVANCE of the arrival of James Robinson (Harvard), coauthor with Daren Acemoglu (MIT) of “Why Nations Fail,” the World Bank sent me a copy of this bestseller. And I am in good company—with Michael Spence, 2001 Nobel Laureate in economics—when I say that it is a book that is hard to put down once…

A little-known contractor who has convinced election officials he is not a “nuisance” candidate for senator has his eyes set on ending political dynasties. Ricardo Penson, 60, on Monday launched in a news conference what he called Krusada Kontra Dynasty, or Kontra, and challenged fellow senatorial candidates to sign a pact that would end a…

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Congressmen representing marginalized sectors have merged into a formidable bloc at the House of Representatives. Now, the 56-member bloc appears bent on taking measures to gain one of the 24 Senate seats.

MANILA, Philippines (1st UPDATE)  – Net satisfaction with President Benigno Aquino III’s administration dipped 10 percentage points in the latest Social Weather Stations survey (SWS) but its score remained well above previous governments.

The Filipino people’s public approval of the Aquino III administration has been seriously eroded. And they have a clear message to their elected Chief Executive: shape up, and focus on easing poverty, creating more jobs, managing well the swelling population, and moderating prices.

Looks like the Liberal Party (LP) still tries to project a holier-than-thou image, which is quite hypocritical, besides which, the cleaner than clean image they tried to project in 2010 no longer works, considering the even greater corruption in the Aquino government today.

Outside of the monoliths, Liberal Party (LP) and Nacionalista Party (NP), few other political parties had made a lasting impression in terms of fielding reliable bets for the periodic polls and those political groups that mount a challenge against such parties were parties usually formed by the incumbent.

PUBLIC SATISFACTION with the performance of government officials in the line of succession to the presidency is highest for Vice-President Jejomar C. Binay, a Social Weather Stations (SWS) survey found, with personal bests garnered by Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile and House Speaker Feliciano R. Belmonte, Jr. and Supreme Court Justice Renato C. Corona ranked…

The satisfaction rating on President Aquino dipped to a low of a net 49 points during the impeachment trial period with the Social Weather Station (SWS) survey held between March 10 to 13 showing 68 percent respondents satisfied with his performance against 19 percent dissatisfied.

SATISFACTION with the performance of President Benigno S. C. Aquino III has dropped to “good” and a majority of Filipinos see him as serving the interests of the middle class, the Social Weather Stations (SWS) said in a new report.

MANILA, Philippines – Almost half of the Filipino population believes Chief Justice Renato Corona is guilty of the charges filed against him at the Senate impeachment court, a recent survey by Pulse Asia showed.

Survey Has No Bearing – Senators MANILA, Philippines — Forty-seven percent of Filipinos believe that Chief Justice Renato C. Corona is guilty of the charges against him, while 43 percent cannot categorically say whether the chief magistrate is guilty or not, a Pulse Asia survey result released Tuesday revealed.

Pulse Asia: Only 5% find him innocent Close to five in every 10 adult Filipinos have found Chief Justice Renato Corona guilty even if a majority of them have little or no knowledge of the impeachment case against him, results of a Pulse Asia survey released on Tuesday showed.

Filipinos are getting more anxious about the economy and how it affects them, according to a Laylo Research Strategies survey. The Jan. 28-Feb. 6 poll, which covered 1,500 respondents, showed 65 percent of Filipinos are anxious about where the country is headed. They consist of the 25 percent who feel the nation is headed in…