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    By ELLEN T. TORDESILLAS CANDIDATES for the 2016 May elections, especially those running for president and vice-president, should read the findings of the EON’s 2015 Philippine Trust Survey which tells that Filipinos want from their leaders to listen to and feel for them. The PTI, which EON started in 2011, is not an

By ELLEN  T. TORDESILLAS Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos, Jr. is the biggest gainer among those who filed their certificates of candidacy  last week, placing second in the vice-presidential race that has always been dominated by Chiz Escudero, running mate of presidential candidate Grace Poe, results of the survey conducted by the Magdalo group four days  after

                               By ELLEN T. TORDESILLAS PULSE Asia’s latest poll on approval and trust ratings of top government officials showed Vice President Jejomar Binay suffering a huge minus 15 drop in performance and minus 18 in trust in the span of three

                                    By ELLEN T. TORDESILLAS SURVEYS if conducted by professionals and executed with integrity are gauge of the sentiments of the people. I have to stress “executed with integrity” because during election season, there are surveys and surveys.

    BY ELLEN T. TORDESILLAS I really hope that Election Commissioner  Christian Robert Lim’s allegation that China is out to sabotage the 2016 elections is just a burst of irresponsibility that has been in abundance in this administration. What is more worrisome is if the sinister scenario that Lim raised is a camouflage for

  By ELLEN T. TORDESILLAS I’M so glad that lawyer Harry Roque has decided to go via the party list in his entry into politics. He is no longer joining Vice President Jejomar Binay’s United Nationalist Alliance ticket. In his meeting with members of the Integrated Bar of the Philippines in Bacolod yesterday, Roque announced

By ELLEN T. TORDESILLAS IS President Aquino that desperate that just to boost the chances of his “Annointed”‘ he had to insult Sen. Grace Poe and his mother, former President Cory Aquino? In his speech endorsing Interior Secretary Mar Roxas for president in the 2016 elections, Aquino shared: “Sa paghahanap nga po, kinausap natin ang

[metaslider id=32252] By VERA Files WHILE the registration in malls is becoming popular among persons with disabilities (PWDs), some of them find the poll services lacking. Cousins Maricar Bernardo, 21, and Karen Yepez, 26, both persons with hearing disability, went to SM City San Lazaro to register on Friday. Both first-time registrants, they were prioritized

Text and photos by OFELIA KAYAT Baguio City — A total of 254 would-be voters turned up to register at the special satellite registration in a mall here Friday. Dubbed as “No bio, No boto” project of the Commission on Elections, the registration was open to the public, with priority given to persons with disabilities

[metaslider id=32200] By VERA FILES THE Commission on Elections (Comelec) on Saturday launched a satellite voter registration and validation in several shopping malls in Metro Manila, but turnout was low. A combination of heavy rain and lack of information dissemination hampered the registration of persons with disabilities and other voters. In five areas, Comelec personnel

The Commission on Elections will hold satellite registrations at five SM malls in Metro Manila on July 4 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Persons with disabilities and senior citizens will be given priority. The participating malls: SM North Edsa: Quezon City- District 1 only SM Megamall: Mandaluyong- All districts SM Southmall: Las Pinas- All

  By ELLEN T. TORDESILLAS THE call of Liberal Party’s Caloocan Rep. Edgar Erice for Sen. Grace Poe to be more transparent on the issue of her residency in the Philippines signals the drawing of the line between Poe and the Liberal Party’s presidential bet, Interior Secretary Mar Roxas. Erice was quoted as saying that

  By ELLEN T. TORDESILLAS VICE President Jejomar Binay won’t be where he is now if he were not an astute political operator. His strategies reflect a good grasp of the factors involved in the political game. He must therefore have sensed that things are not going right for him after three of the political

By JAKE SORIANO Photos and video by DANIEL ABUNALES IT was not a typical scene during voters’ registration. Hundreds of prospective voters from Quezon City, including persons with disabilities (PWDs), lined up early morning of Independence Day at a covered court in Barangay Bagumbahay. But while waiting for their turn, they were treated to a

  By ELLEN T. TORDESILLAS THE latest survey conducted by the Magdalo Group among voters in vote-rich Lingayen-Lucena corridor has Sen. Grace Poe leading the 2016 presidential race. Conducted two weeks ago (May 18 to 20) among 3,000 respondents, the Magdalo survey, just like what they did in their national survey last April, had two

                           By ELLEN T. TORDESILLAS THERE are those who believe that if Vice President Jejomar Binay does not push through with his announced presidential bid in 2016, Manila Mayor Joseph Estrada will carry the opposition torch. I seriously doubt it. And it all boils down to money- at least P10 billion needed to finance

    By ELLEN T. TORDESILLAS WE trust Sen. Grace Poe would be astute in dealing with the reported courtship by the Liberal Party for the 2016 elections with no less than President Aquino and Interior Secretary Mar Roxas leading the wooing. Although the talks were about the 2016 elections, Grace said there was no

  By ELLEN T. TORDESILLAS SOME of those who have ambitions to become president in 2016 are reportedly thinking of ways how to stop Grace Poe, whose political trajectory is consistently ascending since she was elected senator two years ago. This has become urgent with President Aquino’s recent meeting with her on the possibility of