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Candidates in the May 2025 Philippine elections aired television and radio ads worth over P10 billion before discounts from January to December 2024, based on newly released data that the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism (PCIJ) obtained from Nielsen Ad Intel.
More than half of Mindanao lawmakers supported the bid to remove the daughter of former President Rodrigo Duterte, the country’s first president from Mindanao. A total 41 out of 60 Mindanao district lawmakers were among the first signatories. Two others signed on February 7 or a total of 43.
Nationalist groups expressed outrage against surveillance activities by the United States (US) on Philippine soil, demanding that the Ferdinand Marcos Jr. government explain the extent of ongoing intelligence actions by a foreign power in local territory.
Colmenares said it would even be better if the impeachment trial is held after the elections in May as the senators would no longer be influenced by their electoral fortunes.
Reacting to the House of Representatives Committee on Labor and Employment’s consolidation and passage of bills for a legislated wage hike, the CTUHR said it is glad that the consolidated measure doubles Senate Bill 2534’s proposed P100.
Presented to Atty. Neri Colmenares and Atty. Carlos Isagani Zarate by IBP president Antonio Pido during the group’s Governor’s Ball in Cebu City last January 30, the award” serves as an inspiration to people’s lawyers and human rights lawyers,” the National Union of Peoples’ Lawyers (NUPL) said in its congratulatory message to two of its officers.
Elderly activist Myrna Cruz-Abraham is spending her 70th birthday today in jail, arrested last January 27 in San Rafael, Bulacan on a frustrated murder charge in Cagayan Province.
80 city mayors belonging to political dynasties are seeking reelection in May 2025. ‘The worst is having a mayor and a vice mayor who are related,” says political reform advocate Eirene Aguila.
GRP is undermining the peace process, violating the basic principles of mutual respect and accountability, NDFP chief negotiator Julie de Lima says.
