By MARILOU AGUIRRE-TUBURAN Davao Today Bayan Muna Party-list second nominee Carlos Zarate said that the April 2 en banc ruling “gives imprimatur to the further unbridled dominance by the moneyed and powerful elites in our political and electoral system.”
By MARILOU AGUIRRE-TUBURAN Davao Today It is “only proper and fair,” the guerilla spokesman said, for politicians to coordinate with the NPA and people's militia, organs of political power, revolutionary forces and branches of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) as well as “respect the distinct territories held by the revolutionary government.”
By MARILOU AGUIRRE-TUBURAN Davao Today Balisado said that the region has a total of 2.6 Million registered voters. With Davao City’s total 936,451 registered voters, a mayor or vice mayor are only allowed to spend only about PHP2.8M.
By ALEX D. LOPEZ Davao Today “We are encouraged to actively participate in the forthcoming elections to push forward the aspirations and the solutions that we believe are answers to the prevailing problems of poverty due to landlessness, lack of decent jobs, graft and corruption and the domination of foreign policies in our system of government,” Joel Virador, former Bayan Muna Representative
By ALEX D. LOPEZ Davao Today Zarate also noted that since 2001, of the more than a thousand victims of extrajudicial killings especially during the regime of Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, “majority of those killed were either leaders or members or supporters of Bayan Muna.”