The camp of Vice President Leni Robredo asked the Supreme Court sitting as Presidential Electoral Tribunal (PET) to disregard position of the Office of the Solicitor General that the 50 percent threshold in determining the valid votes during the 2016 elections should be maintained.
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Only four of 23 senators are either open to accepting or supportive of the proposed federal Constitution, Senate Majority Leader Juan Miguel Zubiri said on Monday.
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Don’t listen to his “talkkalese” or his opinion about religion. Sara Duterte-Carpio on Wednesday aired this appeal to the public after her father, President Duterte, came under fire for his harsh criticisms against the Church.
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The Duterte administration should heed the call of 38 nations under the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) to stop and probe the killings in its drug war, opposition Senator Risa Hontiveros urged on Monday.
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Some concerned government agencies and private entities have opposed the proposal to abolish the Energy Regulatory Commission but a consumer group backed House Speaker Pantaleon Alvarez’s proposal to scrap the agency.
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There is no known proof that the drugs recovered in the buy-bust operation in Albuera, Leyte was connected to self-confessed drug lord Kerwin Espinosa, two policemen admitted as they took the witness stand before a Manila court.
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Lawmakers on Monday said President Rodrigo Duterte should fire the four commissioners of the Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) who were suspended by the Office the Ombudsman for the second time in six months due to alleged misuse of bill deposits.
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The Supreme Court has started preparing for the June 19 oral arguments on a petition filed three years ago seeking a revision of the Family Code to allow same sex marriages in the Philippines.
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Foreign Affairs Secretary Alan Peter Cayetano on Friday said it would not be prudent for him to go to Sandy Cay just to prove that the Philippines still has control over the area.
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The resolution of the Parañaque Prosecutors Office dismissing the estafa complaint against Japanese gaming tycoon Kazuo Okada is still not final.
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