Text and photos by BRYAN EZRA GONZALES VICE President Leni Robredo has just assumed office and already an expert is saying she will have a tough term ahead with an election controversy hounding her. University of the Philippines Manila Political Science program head Professor Cleve Arguelles said it may take years before the electoral protest of
As of 11 pm, the PPCRV-KBP unofficial election count shows Rodrigo Duterte garnering 12,924,166 votes. Mar Roxas takes the second place with 7,533,599 votes, overtaking Grace Poe now with 7,319,008 votes. Jejomar Binay stays in fourth place with 4,372,141 votes, followed by Miriam Defensor Santiago (1,256,566 ) and Roy Señeres (19,228). In the vice presidential race, Ferdinand Marcos
THE late Interior and Local Government Secretary Jesse Robredo had always made known that his personal advocacies included looking after the welfare of people with disabilities (PWDs). “This is personal to me,” he said in his keynote address at the launching last April 18 of the Fully Abled Nation, a multisectoral initiative to encourage PWDs to register and vote in the 2013 midterm elections. “I am no stranger to PWDs.”
ISABELA, Basilan -- FILIPINOS even in the farthest parts of the country mourned the death of Interior and Local Government Secretary Jesse Robredo. In the conflict-ridden province of Basilan, a meeting of the provincial peace and order council that he was scheduled to attend became a tribute to Robredo, who was called "the most respected DILG secretary."
By ELLEN TORDESILLAS, LUZ RIMBAN, YVONNE CHUA and AVIGAIL OLARTE WHEN Malacañang submits to Congress for confirmation its list of Cabinet appointees, Interior and Local Governments Secretary Jesse Robredo, who is under fire for supposedly mishandling the Aug. 23 hostage-taking crisis at the Quirino Grandstand, won’t be on it. A list of appointments made by