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Alan Peter’s majority was absent. Now they are 11. The minority is also 11. Nothing scares a majority more than discovering it’s a tie.
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Alan Peter’s majority was absent. Now they are 11. The minority is also 11. Nothing scares a majority more than discovering it’s a tie.
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Ego is what drives most of our leaders today. It was clear in the way they made a big production of Senator Jinggoy Estrada’s arrest on Monday.
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The international perception of Philippine legislators has, for years, oscillated between bemused skepticism and quiet concern.
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Senate President Alan Cayetano and his allies in the majority bloc staged another boycott on Tuesday, leaving not only their colleagues in the minority, but…
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‘Events of the past few days may have blurred this distinction, but what happened with one of our colleagues today brings it sharply back into focus.’
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Interior Secretary Jonvic Remulla on Monday led the arrest of Senator Jinggoy Estrada at the Senate after the Sandiganbayan's Fifth Division ordered the…
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Senate President Alan Cayetano and Interior and Local Government Secretary Jonvic Remulla locked horns over the arrest of Senator Jinggoy Estrada inside the…
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Sen. Panfilo Lacson on Saturday rejected claims that the Senate minority bloc was trying to block proposed amendments to chamber rules, saying the group's…
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A Senate sub-panel is set to be formed to resume the stalled high-stakes probe into the alleged corruption scheme involving the flood control projects, Senate…
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JV’s abstention probably haunted Alan Peter more than the opposition votes. Opposition senators are easy. Abstainers? JV is terrifying because he still belongs…
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This is Alan Peter Cayetano we are talking about, a man who has built much of his public life on the capacity to say outrageous things with a straight face,…
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A solon called out Senate President Alan Peter Cayetano over his recent statement that the drug war of former President Rodrigo Duterte was a “pro-life…
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If we were Bato, we would ask a very simple, very unfair question, ‘President Alan, why was I safer before you helped me?’
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In journalism’s brutal, day-to-day reactions to events, the morbidities and monstrosities of our politics did make their ghostly, fleeting appearances last…
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As the mandatory 10 calendar days for Vice President Sara Duterte to submit her answers to the Impeachment Court’s summons, Duterte has until 1 June to answer…
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‘We already talked about it, that while [they] don’t have the numbers yet, let’s not delay the usual process in the Senate.’
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The Senate impeachment court is likely to hold the trial proper for the impeachment case of Vice President Sara Duterte in June, during the congressional…
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Senate President Alan Peter Cayetano on Monday clarified that no final decision has been made regarding acting Senate Sergeant-at-Arms Mao…
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