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It’s all in the numbers! My good friend, Dr. Corina Gochoco-Bautista of the UP School of Economics sent me a resibo showing that it was not the members of the ruling dynasties in key areas in the ...
The number of sea-based Overseas Absentee Voters (OAVs) is continuously declining as only 12,030 are registered for the 2025 midterm election. The OAV was passed in 2003 allowing Filipinos overseas to ...
If the April pre-election survey by Pulse Asia Research, Inc. is a good predictor of the May 12 election for senators, and the likelihood is quite high, we shall have a Philippine Senate very few of ...
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Philstar.com on MSN7dOpinion
Rate your candidate with these 13 questions
The more checks, the more reason to vote for your candidate. If more Xs, think twice. Your vote shapes the nation. Three weeks since her suspension from office, Cebu Gov. Gwendolyn Garcia continues to ...
It’s a deeply embedded culture of impunity where influential individuals manipulate public institutions like personal ATMs ...
Frasco appears to be ignorant of the fact that bribery is still bribery, punishable for at least six years in prison even if ...
The Manila Times on MSN5dOpinion
Political musical chairs
WHEN I asked Google one time what was "the most common wish of Filipinos of their politicians," the answer came in less than ...
When the Nigerian Education Loan Fund, better known as NELFUND, was unveiled, it landed like a spark in a dry forest of ...