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(Eagle News) — Former Metropolitan Manila Development Authority chair Benhur Abalos will be the next Department of the Interior and Local Government chief. Vic Rodriguez, the spokesperson for the camp of former Senator Bongbong Marcos, who is expected to win the presidency by a landslide, made the announcement in a press briefing on Friday, May 13. Abalos, who was Marcos’ campaign manager for the May 9 elections, served as mayor of Mandaluyong City prior to […]
(Eagle News) — Israel on Friday, May 13, congratulated the Philippines for its successful conduct of the May 9 elections. In a statement, the Israel embassy in Manila said it would continue to “work closely with the incoming administration” to “strengthen the friendly historic ties of our nations.” It said the country would also continue to work closely to “deepen the existing partnerships in agriculture, food security, water, tourism, innovation, food security, water, tourism, innovation […]
(Eagle News) — Police confiscated sample ballots and flyers being distributed at the Sauyo Elementary School in Quezon City on Monday, May 13. In this video taken by Eagle News Service correspondent Ian Jasper Eleazar, the various sample ballots can be seen piled up on a table as policemen secured the voting premises. They also confiscated several bags of the illegal campaign materials. Police Capt. Dennis Fajardo of the Quezon City Police District’s Station 4 […]
Comelec urges public to report incidents of vote-buying (Eagle News) – Some 61.8 million Filipinos are expected to troop to polling precincts nationwide for the May 13, 2019 midterm elections which starts at 6 a.m. and ends at 6 p.m. The Commission on Elections (Comelec) urged voters to go out and vote and report incidents of vote-buying. There are 43,554 national and local candidates vying for 18,071 positions for this elections — from senator to […]
(Eagle News) – Liberal Party president Senator Francis Pangilinan said that they would question before the Supreme Court the recent resolution of the Commission on Elections (COMELEC) which picked the Nacionalista Party as the dominant minority party. Pangilinan said that the Comelec’s ruling was “completely unacceptable,” saying that the Nacionalista Party was also allied with the administration of President Rodrigo Duterte. The Partido Demokratiko Pilipino–Lakas ng Bayan (PDP-Laban) was also chosen the dominant majority […]
(Eagle News) – The Commission on Elections has declared the ruling Partido Demokratiko Pilipino – Lakas ng Bayan as the “dominant majority party” while the Nacionalista Party was declared the “dominant minority party,” a move which is now being questioned by the opposition Liberal Party. With the decision, this entitled the PDP-Laban and the Nacionalista Party to receive the fifth and sixth copies of election returns respectively from the vote counting machines, and get the […]
(Eagle News) – The Supreme Court, sitting as the Presidential Electoral Tribunal (PET), affirmed its earlier declaration that the electoral protest of former senator and then vice-presidential candidate Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos was “sufficient in form and substance.” With this decision, the PET junked the poll protest case filed by Marcos’ rival, Vice-President Leni Robredo, and would likely proceed to recount the votes cast in the very controversial and hotly contested May 2016 vice-presidential race. […]
A representative of the ASEAN Youth Leaders’ Association, Danille Fitzgerald Soria, talks about the ASEAN youth’s take on the May 9 presidential elections in the Philippines, and other issues facing the next Philippine president, Rodrigo Duterte. One of the hosts of ASEAN in Focus, Rachel Martin, interviews Soria in this episode of the program aired in May 2016, a few weeks after the elections. Part 1: Part 2: Part 3:
(Eagle News) — Malacanang has denied it had a “Plan B,” referring to circulating reports on an alleged plan that would ensure that Liberal Party vice-presidential bet Leni Robredo would continue the Aquino government’s “agenda”. In a statement, the Palace claims it has no plans to impeach the winning president and install the Vice President who comes from the Liberal Party to continue its agenda. “Masyado yatang malawak na imahinasyon ang ginagamit sa ganyang mga […]
MANILA, Philippines (AFP) — Philippine president-elect Rodrigo Duterte may release jailed communist rebels in an effort to restart peace talks aimed at ending a decades-old insurgency that has claimed tens of thousands of lives, an aide said Tuesday. The aide said Duterte, set to be sworn into office on June 30 after a landslide election victory on Monday, signalled his readiness to discuss the release of a number of imprisoned rebels, a key factor in […]
(Eagle News) — Presidential candidate and Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte maintained his lead (with a margin of more than six million) in the presidential race, while Liberal Party’s Leni Robredo continued her lead (more than 231,693 votes) over Ferdinand Marcos Jr., in the latest tally of the Kapisanan ng mga Brodkaster ng Pilipinas (KBP)-Eagle Broadcasting Corporation (EBC) quick count. The latest numbers came from the unofficial and partial election results from the Commission on Elections […]
(Eagle News) — Here is the partial and unofficial election results of the Kapisanan ng mga Brodkaster ng Pilipinas (KBP) and Eagle Broadcasting Corporation quick count for the May 9, 2016 elections as of May 11, 6:08 a.m: #KBPquickcount Unofficial Results as of : 05/11/2016 06:08:51 75.62% Voters Turnout Total # of Clustered Precincts : 94,276 Total # of Precincts reporting : 89,901 Percent Transmitted : 95.36% Presidential Candidate Total Votes 1. DUTERTE, […]
