Legarda: Where are El Niño funds?

February 19, 2010

BAROTAC NUEVO, ILOILO—NACIONALISTA PARTY (NP) VICE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE LOREN LEGARDA THURSDAY TOOK MALACAÑANG TO TASK FOR FAILING TO PROMPTLY RELEASE EMERGENCY FUNDS FOR EL NIÑO UNDER THE 2010 GENERAL APPROPRIATIONS ACT.
Legarda demanded the prompt release of the funds after talking with rice farmer Pio Bernardo while campaigning in this third-class municipality, a one-hour car trip from Iloilo City.
Bernardo complained to Legarda and NP standard-bearer Manuel Villar that the weather phenomenon had drastically reduced the palay harvest from the […]

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EDSA I not yours, Aquino, LP told

February 19, 2010

NO ONE—NOT EVEN THE AQUINO FAMILY AND THE LIBERAL PARTY (LP)—HOLDS A FRANCHISE TO THE HISTORICAL EVENT THAT WAS THE EDSA PEOPLE POWER REVOLUTION, ACCORDING TO PARTY-LIST REP. SATUR OCAMPO.
“EDSA I is not yours,” Ocampo, who is running for the Senate under the Nacionalista Party (NP), told the rival LP as he insisted it could not take ownership of the revolt of the masses in February, 1986.
Ocampo told reporters at a campaign sortie in Aklan that the icon […]

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Josons of Nueva Ecija leaning toward Villar

February 19, 2010

NUEVA ECIJA, PHILIPPINES—-FORMER PRESIDENT JOSEPH ESTRADA, WHO WANTS TO RE-TAKE MALACAÑANG, WENT AROUND THIS VOTE-RICH PROVINCE NORTH OF MANILA ON THURSDAY TO THE CHEERS OF STAR-STRUCK VOTERS.
“Sino’ng presidente ang gustong halikan ni Ai-ai de las Alas?” Estrada’s political adviser Ernesto Maceda asked the crowd at the plaza of Muñoz City.
“Si Erap!” the crowd responded.
“Sino’ng presidente ang gustong halikan ni Mommy Dionisia?” he asked again.
“Si Erap!”
This warm welcome, however, doesn’t guarantee that Estrada will win Nueva […]

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NP camp warns LP not to exploit Edsa I rites for political gain

February 18, 2010

JUST WHEN NACIONALISTA PARTY (NP) FRONTRUNNERS CALL FOR TRADITIONAL FORM OF CAMPAIGNING, SOME OF THE PARTY’S SENATORIAL CANDIDATES YESTERDAY TOOK AN OFFENSIVE STANCE, TAKING A DIG AT THE LIBERAL PARTY (LP) WHICH IS SAID TO CASH IN ON THE COMING PEOPLE POWER I ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION TO FURTHER BOOST ITS EDGE OVER RIVAL PARTIES.
Sen. Loren Legarda, NP’s guest candidate for the vice presidential post, made an appeal during a press conference in Capiz addressed to the LP to elevate the […]

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Loren Calls For Botika Ng Barangay, Urgent Health Reforms

February 18, 2010

IN RESPONSE TO THE AILING HEALTH OF MANY FILIPINOS ESPECIALLY IN THE COUNTRYSIDE AND THE SLOW RECOVERY FROM THE RECENT FINANCIAL CRISIS, SEN. LOREN LEGARDA PUSHED FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF DRUGSTORES IN BARANGAYS. LOREN EMPHASIZED THAT HER PLATFORM OF GOVERNANCE IS TO EMPOWER FILIPINOS AT THE BARANGAY LEVEL.
“It is our moral obligation to protect and promote the people’s right to health and instill health consciousness among them. I am aiming for the government to provide adequate social services and […]

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