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(Eagle News) – Vice-President Leni Robredo said it was unconstitutional to allow foreign vessels to fish in the Philippines’ exclusive economic zone, supporting an earlier statement made by Supreme Court Senior Associate Justice Antonio Carpio. In a recent interview on GMA 7’s morning program, “Unang Hirit,” Robredo said that the country’s EEZ should be reserved for the enjoyment of Filipino citizens She said that this provision in the Constitution was what had been violated […]
(Eagle News)–The camp of Vice President Leni Robredo has asked the Presidential Electoral Tribunal to resolve all pending incidents after the revision and the recount of ballots ordered in connection with former Senator Bongbong Marcos’ electoral protest. In seeking for the resolution in an eight-page urgent motion, Robredo, through her lawyer Romulo Macalintal, said the result of the revision, recount and re-appreciation of the ballots, which were terminated in March, “clearly confirm the victory of […]
(Eagle News) – Vice-President Leni Robredo led the celebration of the 121st Independence Day at the Rizal Park on Wednesday, June 12, while President Rodrigo Duterte is set to visit military troops in Lanao del Sur later in the day. As in the previous years, President Duterte decided to skip the Independence Day ceremonies in Luneta. Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo said that “there must be some special reason” why Duterte again decided to go […]
(Eagle News) — Vice-President Leni Robredo came to vote in Naga City on Monday morning, May 13, 2019, around 9:30 a.m., together with her daughters, Aika and Janine Patricia. She went to precinct no. 112 in Tabuco elementary school in the city. She waited for about an hour before she got her turn to vote. Robredo urged the public to go out and vote.
(Eagle News) – Miss Universe 2018 Catriona Gray paid separate courtesy calls to the Office of the Vice President, the Senate office, and the Department of Tourism on Tuesday, February 26, as she vowed to continue to represent and promote the Philippines to the world to the best of her abilities. Gray first visited Vice President Leni Robredo on Tuesday morning. Robredo thanked the Filipina-Australian beauty for making the Philippines proud with her achievements. […]
(Eagle News) – The Supreme Court, acting as the Presidential Electoral Tribunal (PET), has amended its earlier issuance on the “use of numerical threshold” on the shading of votes in the May 2016 presidential elections. In its decision, the PET instead directed head revisors to “refer to the election returns to verify the total number of votes as read and counted by the vote counting machines” in its deliberations on the electoral protest case […]
(Eagle News) – Vice-President Leni Robredo visited opposition Senator Antonio Trillanes IV at the Senate where he had been staying for the past three days, and criticized moves by the Duterte administration to allegedly “harass” the senator. Explaining her visit, Robredo said she was already near the area, coming from a speaking engagement at the Philippine International Convention Center (PICC) so she decided to drop by. “Naisip ko na malapit na rin [ako], makausap […]
(Eagle News) – Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque maintained that President Rodrigo Duterte had “access to information” that many people had no access to before he asserted that Naga City was a “hotbed of shabu.” In a press briefing in Malacanang, Roque said that the President is not politicizing the issue and is just stating the facts based on the information he had. “I’m sure he has access to information indicating certain areas to be […]
(Eagle New) – Saying he is tired and exasperated, President Rodrigo Duterte said he is now ready to resign realizing that he cannot finish the war on corruption and drugs within his term as what he had promised to the people. “I do not think that I can fulfill my promise to the people. I said I was the first one to finish because I used the bullet style. Having been a prosecutor in […]
(Eagle News) — Former Senator Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr., has already paid the P50,000 fine for violating the supposed gag order imposed by the Presidential Electoral Tribunal regarding public statements on his electoral protest case against Vice-President Leni Robredo. In a compliance document he submitted, Marcos said he had already complied with the PET order dated June 26 for him to pay the P50,000 fine for not following the gag order issued by the tribunal. […]
(Eagle News) – Former senator Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr asked Supreme Court justice Alfredo Caguioa to immediately inhibit himself from his electoral protest case citing his “undeniably close ties” with former President Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino Jr., and Vice-President Leni Robredo whose victory he is contesting. In a 13-page extremely urgent motion to inhibit, Marcos said he “recently discovered” that Caguioa’s wife, Pier Angela Caguioa, was “not only an anti-Marcos advocate but was also an […]
(Eagle News) — The Commission on Elections backed the position of Vice-President Leni Robredo on the 25 percent shading threshold for votes in the manual recount, as it sent its comment to the Presidential Electoral Tribunal on the poll protest case filed by former Senator Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. In its comment sent by the Comelec legal department, the poll body said that it considered as “valid votes” marks that “cover at least about […]
