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Category: Commentary

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    Categories Commentary PHL Vote 2022

    Surveys and rallies are not what makes candidates win

    By Tita C. Valderama  |  May 02, 2022 1:37 PM

    Neither survey results nor mammoth crowds in campaign rallies can make a candidate win. But somehow, these indicate a candidate’s popularity or unpopularity. The actual votes we will cast next Monday are what will make candidates win.

    campaign rally, Election surveys, Elections 2022

  • Yes, Yorme, it’s about character
    Categories Commentary PHL Vote 2022

    Yes, Yorme, it’s about character

    By Tita C. Valderama  |  Apr 25, 2022 1:15 PM

    He probably thought he was already close to the presidency if he got the endorsement of 1Sambayan, until Robredo gave in to calls for her to run for higher office.

    Elections 2022, Isko Moreno

  • Categories Commentary PHL Vote 2022

     Nothing less than a people’s campaign

    By Rosario A. Garcellano  |  Apr 25, 2022 10:49 AM

    The show of force for Vice President Leni Robredo on Macapagal Avenue in Pasay City on April 23 amply demonstrated her camp’s strength of purpose, and the burgeoning numbers — per estimates, 412,000 at the site and 171,000 on livestream (although often faltering by dint of a dropping internet signal) — foreshadowed a pitched battle with the survey front-runner Ferdinand Marcos Jr. at the polls.


  • Categories Commentary Editor's Pick PHL Vote 2022

    In defeat, defiance?

    By Jose Bayani Baylon  |  Apr 21, 2022 6:46 PM

    Whoever loses in the May 9 elections for President will have a hard time accepting defeat, but for very different reasons.

    2022ELECTIONS

  • Easter Sunday Manila Peninsula press conference
    Categories Commentary PHL Vote 2022

    A presscon of reductio ad absurdum

    By Antonio J. Montalvan II  |  Apr 19, 2022 7:35 AM

    Three candidates – Lacson, Moreno and Gonzales – tried to dictate their will in the upcoming presidential race from the opulent perch of their press conference at the plush Manila Peninsula Hotel over the weekend. How can these three candidates, haunted by shady and fraudulent credentials, have the moral ascendancy to prescribe which candidate should run and who should withdraw?

    Elections 2022

  • bicam meeting
    Categories Commentary

    Duterte’s SIM card bill veto checks bicam practice of ‘insertions’

    By Tita C. Valderama  |  Apr 18, 2022 9:11 PM

    President Rodrigo Duterte’s recent veto of the proposed SIM card registration law should call attention to the legislators’ practice of inserting new provisions in bills during bicameral conference committee (bicam) meetings, no matter how well-intentioned the insertion may be.

    SIM card bill

  • Press con, in the photo, are Isko Moreno, Norberto Gonzales, Ping Lacson
    Categories Commentary Editor's Pick

    Easter Sunday spectacle at the Pen

    By Rosario A. Garcellano  |  Apr 17, 2022 7:45 PM

    Vice President Leni Robredo was the elephant in Manila Peninsula’s Rigodon Ballroom in the early part of three other presidential candidates’ Easter Sunday press conference, and it seemed that they could not quite bring themselves to identify her.

    Elections 2022, Isko Moreno, NORBERTO GONZALES, Ping Lacson

  • AbpVillegas-CBCpNews
    Categories Commentary PHL Vote 2022

    Should the church endorse a political candidate?

    By Antonio J. Montalván II  |  Apr 17, 2022 4:00 PM

    I speak as a layperson who has studied Catholic theology and catechism.

    Elections 2022

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    Categories Commentary

    Duterte’s useless quacks against party list system

    By Tita C. Valderama  |  Apr 11, 2022 7:22 PM

    From the time he assumed the presidency in 2016 until now that he is about to finish his six-year term, President Rodrigo Duterte has consistently criticized the party-list system, saying it has been abused, particularly by rich politicians, who have managed to stay in power through this mechanism.

    Partylist, Rodrigo Duterte

  • Four presidential candidates
    Categories Commentary PHL Vote 2022

    They should have also been declared nuisance candidates

    By Antonio J. Montalván II  |  Apr 09, 2022 2:03 PM

    There are ten candidates for president of the Philippines, including one who refuses to attend debates as a matter of calibrated packaging and four who should have been declared as nuisance candidates.

    Elections 2022

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