MANILA — Bayan Muna Rep. Teddy Casi?o today challenged the military’s commander
for the National Capital Region to present a written and explicit
order from the President authorizing deployment of soldiers in Metro
Manila and for what purpose.
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DAVAO CITY ? Kabataan Party-list today pleads to parent voters to vote
for their children’s future and not be lured with the incentives and
the goodie-bags which are being poured-in by party-list groups
believed to be backed by Malaca?ang.
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Starting today, davaotoday.com will run a series of Q&As with some of the country’s prominent political analysts and activists on the 2007 election. In this first installment, Manuel Quezon III, a historian and political analyst, offers his take on the election and its significance to Filipinos and politicians.
Karlo Nograles, the son of Davao City congressman and staunch Arroyo ally Prospero Nograles, is eyeing a seat in Congress through an OFW partylist group. He maintains that it?s merely by chance that he is the son of Prospero and that he does have a soft spot for OFWs even though he?s not one of them. Some people, however, see his running as just part of the alleged plot to field partylist groups said to have links with Malacanang.
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MANILA — The labor groups, Alliance of Progressive Labor (APL) and
Confederation of Independent Unions (CIU) challenge the senatorial
candidates to reveal plans to curb the unemployment problem as the
groups launch the series of “job interviews” of politicians aspiring
for the 12 seats in the Senate.
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