The Laban ng Demokratikong Pilipino (LDP) announced on Tuesday, May 3, that they are supporting the presidential bid of Davao City Mayor Rodrigo R. Duterte.
The final testing and sealing of the vote counting machines (VCMs) in the city will be done four days before local and national elections on May 9.
An estimate of 6,000 workers joined the Labor Day march here on Sunday, May 1. Workers took to the streets their calls to end contractualization and for higher wages.
Although already crowded, the night market located along Roxas avenue here is still open to vendors who wish to sell their products.
Of the five Presidential candidates, Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte is considered the one who could possibly resume the stalled peace talks between the government and the National Democratic Front.
A survey found low awareness of the partylist system with more than half of the voters saying they did not find partylist groups useful.
Davao City will take a shot in breaking Bangladesh’s record of the most number of people singing the national anthem in one place two days before the elections.
For nine years, Lester Pillado works as a contractual in a fruit processing company here.
Women’s groups expressed their disappointment against the Aquino administration’s labour policies on contractualization affecting women workers in the country.
Presidential aspirant Rodrigo Duterte had a brief conversation with the founder of the Communist Party of the Philippines on Monday, April 25 where he told his former professor, Prof. Jose Maria Sison of his plans should he win this election.
