Politics

MANILA, Philippines – The Commission on Elections (Comelec) last night declared the Liberal Party (LP) of presidential candidate Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino as the dominant minority party in Monday’s automated elections.

BACOLOD CITY—SUGAR PLANTATION WORKERS in Negros Occidental are being harassed into voting for the choice candidates of planters in yet another manifestation of how slave-like the workers’ conditions are.

THE AKO BICOL Party (AKB) has snatched the top spot from the militant Bayan Muna among 13 party-list groups likely to secure at least one seat at the House of Representatives, a final BusinessWorld-Social Weather Stations (SWS) Pre-Election Survey showed.

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MANILA, Philippines – Pwersa ng Masang Pilipino (PMP) vice presidential candidate Makati City Mayor Jejomar Binay has tied with Liberal Party (LP) bet Sen. Manuel “Mar” Roxas II in the latest survey by the Social Weather Stations (SWS), while LP standard-bearer Sen. Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III widened his lead over his rivals, according to a…

MANILA, Philippines – A coalition of 19 party-list organizations including thousands of urban poor residents in Tondo, Manila declared their support for administration candidate Gilberto “Gibo” Teodoro Jr.

Chastised, LP bet gives new spin to people power protest Former Philippine leader Joseph Estrada insisted yesterday he could cause a major upset and win next week’s presidential election, as he slammed the Liberal Party (LP) standard bearer for threatening a popular uprising if he loses the elections.

OUSTED President Joseph Estrada overtook Senator Manuel Villar Jr. for second place in the presidential race, while frontrunner Benigno Aquino III maintained his lead, the latest Manila Standard survey showed.

SENATOR Manuel Roxas II maintained his lead in the vice presidential race while Senator Loren Legarda continued to lose ground to Makati Mayor Jejomar Binay, the latest Manila Standard survey showed.

BETS ALL SEE OVERSEAS CONTRACT WORK AS MERE STOP-GAP MEASURE HOW do the presidential candidates propose to deal with Philippine poverty? We ask the eight leading contenders for the presidency of the Philippines to give us a brief, 500-word reply to this and related questions about jobs and job-creating investments. We provided a brief background…

The Noynoy Aquino phenomenon – the emergence of a reluctant presidential candidate who is now poised to become the next Philippine president – has spawned another phenomenon. This phenomenon can be called SURVEY PHOBIA or the irrational fear of survey results.

A major group under the Trade Union Congress of the Philippines (TUCP), the biggest workers’ organization in the country, is not participating in today’s celebration of Labor Day. But the Associated Labor Union (ALU) has announced that it is supporting the Liberal Party’s presidential candidate Sen. Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III and his running mate Sen.…

CEBU, Philippines – The Associated Labor Unions-Trade Union Congress of the Philippines has announced its support to Liberal Party standard bearer Senator Benigno “Noynoy” Quino and his runningmate Sen. Mar Roxas.

MANILA, Philippines – A recent survey by Pulse Asia that was released yesterday showed that Senators Ramon Revilla Jr. and Jinggoy Estrada remained as the top contenders in the senatorial race, with only nine days before the May 10 elections.

FORMER Defense Secretary Gilbert “Gibo” Teodoro, the administration party standard-bearer in the May 10 elections, has overtaken the two perceived frontrunners in the latest survey conducted by independent pollster Campaigns and Images Group (CIG).

CEBU, Philippines – The Associated Labor Unions-Trade Union Congress of the Philippines has announced its support to Liberal Party standard bearer Senator Benigno “Noynoy” Quino and his runningmate Sen. Mar Roxas.

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WITH only 10 days left before elections, ousted President Joseph Estrada pulled even with Senator Manuel Villar Jr. for second place in the presidential race, 19 points behind frontrunner Benigno Aquino III, the latest Pulse Asia survey showed.

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The only son of late former President Corazon “Cory” Aquino appears headed for a landslide victory in next month’s elections, a survey said on Thursday.

Chances are by the time this column sees print, the Comelec may have decided that the idea of having a parallel manual count is an exercise in futility. Of course the Comelec has to be proper in its actions and its language. But just in case some holdouts decide to put up a fight, here’s…

Somebody has asked me if I believe there is a so-called “OFW vote.” “Yes,” I readily answered. “And OFWs have the numbers to make Susan ‘Toots’ Ople win.”

SURE WINNER?: Concern was expressed by a number of readers reacting to our Postscript of April 25 calling attention to propaganda that the only way Candidate X, who thinks he is a sure winner, to lose is for him to be cheated.

MANILA, Philippines – Two non-government organizations are urging Filipinos to vote for candidates who favor the reproductive health bill.

MANILA, Philippines – The latest survey of the Social Weather Stations (SWS) showed that two actors who are also re-electionist senators are again leading the senatorial aspirants in the May 10 elections.

Militant and moderate farmers’ groups have cast their lot with either the Liberal Party’s Senator Benigno Simeon Aquino III or his closest rival Senator Manuel Villar of the Nacionalista Party.

SENATOR Manuel Roxas II widened his lead to 18 percentage points over vice presidential rival and fellow Senator Loren Legarda, 41 percent to 23 percent, as Makati Mayor Jejomar Binay continued to catch up in the latest Manila Standard poll.

MANILA, Philippines – As Nacionalista Party standard bearer Manuel Villar and Liberal Party presidential bet Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III have both been promising to service the poor once elected, the amounts spent by the top two campaign spenders exceed the budgets of government agencies helping the poor, the watchdog Pera’t Pulitika has observed.

MANILA, Philippines – Liberal Party standard-bearer Sen. Benigno Simeon “Noynoy” C. Aquino III has gained a double-digit lead over his fiercest rival, Nacionalista Party presidential bet Sen. Manuel “Manny” B. Villar, Jr., in the latest BusinessWorld-Social Weather Stations (SWS) Pre-Election Survey.