Petitioners against the Sasa port modernization project accused the government of increasing from P4 billion to a “graft-labelled” budget of P18 billion to raise election funds.
Vice presidential candidate Senator Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos was heckled during his opening statement at the Vice Presidential debate on Sunday, April 10.
Senate Majority Leader Alan Peter Cayetano called on officials of the police to immediately release farmers who were arrested after a violent dispersal of a protest rally in Kidapawan, North Cotabato last Friday, April 1.
Presidential aspirant Rodrigo Duterte insisted that the Spratly Islands belong to the Philippines but the Davao City mayor reiterated that the country is not prepared to go to war with China.
Independent vice-presidential candidate Sen. Francis “Chiz” Escudero has proposed to allocate 30 percent of the present national budget, or roughly about P1 trillion, to Mindanao as an immediate economic relief to the region should he wins in the May 9 elections.