Survey: Support for Duterte in senatorial race dips
FORMER president Rodrigo Duterte slipped into second place among contenders for the 2025 Senate race in the latest Publicus Asia survey results released on Wednesday.
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Tulfo, Sotto, Go, Duterte on top
(UPDATE) FORMER broadcasters Erwin and Ben Tulfo, former president Rodrigo Duterte, former senator Vicente «Tito» Sotto 3rd, and Sen. Christopher «Bong» Go are among those who topped the senatorial survey conducted by OCTA Research.
Erwin Tulfo leads OCTA senatorial survey
MANILA, Philippines — Filipinos seem to want more members of the Tulfo family at the Senate after a recent OCTA Research survey showed significant support for two brothers of Sen. Raffy Tulfo.
JPE, the centenarian
MANILA, Philippines — Presidential Legal Counsel, Secretary Juan Valentin Furagganan Ponce Enrile, better known as JPE – former assemblyman, minister of defense, senator, congressman (representing the 1st District of Cagayan province), Senate president and the first and longest-serving and STILL breathing oldest public official on planet Earth and probably the entire universe – is celebrating his 100th birthday today.
Ping blasts flip-flopping Vice President Sara accuser
MANILA, Philippines — Coming from a “flip-flopping witness,” the accusation of retired police officer Arturo Lascañas against Vice President Sara Duterte linking her to extrajudicial killings in Davao City lacks credibility and “cannot withstand the standards of a fair trial,” former senator Panfilo Lacson said yesterday.
Aquilino Pimentel III, ex-speaker Velasco biggest Congress spenders in 2022
MANILA, Philippines — Senate Minority Leader Aquilino Pimentel III was the biggest spender among senators in 2022 with almost P130 million, while Sen. Mark Villar was the most frugal with expenses at only P35 million.
Tulfo, Go still top Senate preferences
MANILA, Philippines — Rep. Erwin Tulfo of ACT-CIS party-list and Sen. Bong Go are still the most preferred among potential candidates for the Senate in the 2025 midterm elections, a recent survey conducted by the OCTA Research group showed.
Public should keep eye on government use of 'bloated' unprogrammed funds — budget expert
MANILA, Philippines — The public must keep an eye on how the government will spend the unprogrammed appropriations it had “bloated” in the 2024 national budget, a budget expert cautioned on Tuesday, in light of recent proposals allowing the government to tap state firms’ revenues for unprogrammed funds.