Senate: Worth our money?
Democracy is not cheap. Political instability is even more expensive.
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Democracy is not cheap. Political instability is even more expensive.
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This is the weaponization of the leadership fight obscured. It is not about who runs the Senate, but who gets to remain a senator dressed up as due process.
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While names and faces in leadership may change, the underlying dynamics often remain the same. Filipinos are understandably skeptical about whether these new…
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After a two-week leadership deadlock, Senator Sherwin “Win” Gatchalian got his 13th vote and was finally installed to the chamber’s top post on Wednesday after…
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The cases apparently were dangled as leverage, dismissals offered in exchange for bloc membership, following the template allegedly applied to Senator Chiz…
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The battle for control of the Senate is far from over as a tug-of-war erupted yesterday, with the bloc of Senator Alan Peter Cayetano bringing the Senate…
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Aside from Senator Joel Villanueva, one male and one female senator are likely to bolt from the Cayetano-led faction, although they remain hesitant to make a…
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Meralco PowerGen Corp. (MGEN) has named Arnel Santos president and chief executive officer of MGEN Thermal Energy Inc., effective July, as it has completed…
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Article VI, Section 16(1) requires a majority of all the members. In a 24-member Senate, that means 13. And that is why the talk of a 13th senator joining the…
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Could fresh linguistic constructs outmaneuver the true intent and purpose of what ‘the majority of all its members’ means in the constitutional text?
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House Lead Public Prosecutor Gerville Luistro on Monday urged the Senate to resolve its leadership dispute before the impeachment trial of Vice President Sara…
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Malacañang is bent on doing anything it can to convict and disqualify Vice President Sara Duterte from holding public office.
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Dionisio believes each issue is both a governance failure to diagnose and a teaching moment the public cannot afford to ignore.
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Senator Joel Villanueva vowed Sunday to attend a special session if one is called by the President to advance stalled legislation, even as pundits see it as an…
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In the Senate, those words now echo the uncertainty over Senator Alan Peter Cayetano’s grip on the chamber’s top post.
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Freedom Day took on a decidedly political dimension yesterday, beyond the street clashes between rallyists and anti-riot police, as President Ferdinand Marcos…
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The Senate Hall, the Batasang Pambansa, the Palace by the River Pasig still stand. But the spirit is gone.
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The Senate can recover its stature if its members choose dialogue over confrontation and loyalty to the institution over allegiance to factions.
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