BY ELLEN T. TORDESILLAS ASIDE from Salvador Panelo, spokesperson of President-elect Rodrigo Duterte for a month, aspirant to be ambassador to the Court of St. James and now presidential legal counsel, another appointee of incoming president Rodrigo Duterte who is creating a different kind of buzz is David Lapuz as head of the Commission
By ELLEN T. TORDESILLAS WE are going to miss Atty. Salvador Panelo as presidential spokesperson. Incoming president Rodrigo Duterte has a new spokesperson in the person for Ernie Abella, a former pastor. In the announcement of Peter Laviña, spokesman for the Duterte transition team, of the latest cabinet appointments in his Facebook page, he did
By ELLEN T. TORDESILLAS TO control the damage wrought by President-elect Rodrigo Duterte’s verbal assault on media during his press conference Tuesday justifying the extra-judicial killing of journalists, Peter Laviña, spokesman for Duterte’s transition team said media, his principal’s remarks were “taken out of context, misinterpreted, and misunderstood.” That is adding insult to
By ELLEN T. TORDESILLAS AFTER Congress, acting as National Board of Canvassers, declared last Friday Rodrigo Duterte of PDP-Laban as winner in the presidential contest and Leni Robredo of the Liberal Party for the vice-presidential race in the May 9 elections, Sen. Alan Peter Cayetano, Duterte’s running mate, told media that a cabinet position
By ELLEN T. TORDESILLAS PUTANGINAS are staple in incoming president Rodrigo Duterte’s language. His supporters love it. Mas malutong ang mura, mas malakas ang palakpak. Those were in rallies during the campaign. If parents brought along their children to those events, that was their sole responsibility to expose their children to those kind of gutter
Rodrigo Duterte, presidential candidate of the PDP-Laban and Leni Robredo, vice-presidential candidate of the Liberal Party will be proclaimed Monday (May30) as the winners for the top two positions in the May 9, 2016 elections in a joint session of Congress. Duterte emerged as winner of the presidential race with 16,601,997 votes, more than
By ELLEN T. TORDESILLAS PRESUMPTIVE President-elect Rodrigo Duterte said early this week he wants to know why the Philippines lost Scarborough Shoal. When he said this, he was apparently under the impression that Senator Antonio Trillanes IV, who exposed his BPI bank deposits amounting to no less than P200 million despite before the May
By VEN LABRO CATBALOGAN City – Save for a few newbies, Eastern Visayas remains pretty much in the tight grip of political families. When the dust settled in the political arena in the region days after the May 9 elections, all its six incumbent governors remained standing. In Leyte, reelectionist Gov. Leopoldo Dominico Petilla trounced
President Obama spoke by phone today with presumptive President-elect Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines to convey his congratulations. President Obama noted that the successful election and record voter participation were emblematic of the Philippines’ vibrant democracy. The President highlighted the enduring values that underpin our thriving alliance with the Philippines and the longstanding ties between
By MARIA FEONA IMPERIAL RETIRED army general Jovito Palparan, who was implicated in the disappearance of University of the Philippines students Karen Empeno and Sherlyn Cadapan, made it to the top 12 of the senatorial race in the Local Absentee Voting (LAV) results. Former senator Panfilo Lacson, who served as chief of the Philippine National
