Clash of clans: Dynasties to slug it out in Philippine midterm elections - BusinessWorld Online

In Philippines election, personality trumps policy as economic storm brews

DAVAO CITY, Philippines -- For Filipinos like Randy Martinez, May 12's midterm elections for the House of Representatives, half of the Senate and thou

Marcos-Duterte Feud at Center of Philippine Midterm Elections

Philippine Vice President Sara Duterte won’t be on the ballot in Monday’s midterm elections, but the outcome could determine whether she keeps her job in a high-stakes contest centered around a feud between the country’s two most powerful families.

Clash of clans: Dynasties to slug it out in Philippine midterm elections - BusinessWorld Online

By Kenneth Christiane L. Basilio, Reporter ANTONIO A. ROMANO, a 49-year-old taxi driver from Quezon City, is sick and tired of the same familiar names and faces that he sees every time he votes, many of them from well-entrenched political families. “Politicians these days have become incredibly shameless,” he told BusinessWorld. “It’s as if politics has become their business, one that they fully own.” Philippine midterm elections this month are …

Clans’ Warfare Dominates Philippines’ Midterms

By: Tita ValderamaIn happier days… Photo from GMA NetworkThe Philippines’ May 12 midterm polls, to elect 12 of the 24-member Senate and hundreds of local government officials, are a referendum between two warring clans, one led by President Ferdinand Marcos Jr., the other by his once-partner, Vice President Sara Duterte as a stand-in for her father, Rodrigo R. Duterte, the former president now languishing in a United Nations Detention Unit in Th…

SOMEONE ELSE’S WINDOWS: Imee Marcos’ legal stunt

MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews / 8 May) – In an effort to gain the sympathy of pro-Duterte voters, reelectionist Senator Imee Marcos held a committee hearing on the arrest of former President Rodrigo Duterte based on a warrant from the International Criminal Court and his surrender to The Hague, Netherlands to face charges of crimes against humanity of murder linked to his bloody “war on drugs.” The hearing led to the filing of criminal and administ…

VP Sara claim that Imee Marcos will bring back Duterte from The Hague misleads

Reelectionist Sen. Imee Marcos has no power to bring back former president Rodrigo Duterte from The Hague, contrary to what Vice President Sara Duterte claimed in a Cebu sortie where she appealed for votes for the sister of President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. STATEMENT In an April 27 campaign rally in Carcar City, Cebu, the vice president lauded Imee for leading the Senate probe on the March 11 arrest and transfer of the older Duterte to the custody …