It will eventually be a numbers game for contenders seeking the senate presidency via multi-partisan alliances that are, at best, temporary and unwieldy.
Monthly Archives: May 2010
PROFILE: Herbert M. Bautista
May 24, 2010 – 12:34 pm
Bautista’s mayoral victory parallels this year’s dominance of actors in Philippine politics. In the Senate alone, former actors Sens. Ramon “Bong” Revilla, Jr., Jose “Jinggoy” Estrada, Manuel “Lito” Lapid, and ex-Sen. Vicente “Tito” Sotto III scored decisive wins.
PROFILE: Renato C. Corona
May 24, 2010 – 12:17 pm
With an apparently pro-Arroyo voting record favoring government secrecy and his wife an official of a controversial state-owned company, Supreme Court Chief Justice Renato C. Corona’s eight-year term gets off to a rocky start.
Live from cyberspace
May 17, 2010 – 11:36 am
“We’re hoping for the best but we’re preparing for the worst.” There’s only so much we can do as newspeople to get ready so I thought to myself that maybe we were all in the same boat of insecurity. We just have to suck it up and face the music when it’s there. We were given fair warning for violence, corruptions and anomalies. I should be, somehow, ready for this.
On the ground: covering the battle of May 10
May 17, 2010 – 11:27 am
These little boo-boos, which might have been catastrophic mishaps had the machines not been cooperative on Election Day, were important details we found out two days prior to the elections. While the government was reassuring the public that any problem on Election Day was negligible, the stories we found in Malabon and Navotas reiterated that the possibility of failed automation was very real.
What’s Behind? The 2010 Election Series
May 17, 2010 – 7:26 am
TNP brings you What’s Behind? The 2010 Election Series that will profile the incoming leaders of the executive, legislative, and judicial branches of government, as well as the city’s new local executive.
College alliance demands Arroyo exit
May 6, 2010 – 3:46 pm
The alliance said “the challenge for the next set of leaders is to restore the people’s confidence in its selected leadership,” and also called for “vigilance not just from students, but from all sectors of Philippine society, to prevent a return of tyranny in her hands or in those of others.”