Filipinos should guard against more midnight deals by the Duterte administration, says Bayan Muna, which supported the presidential bids of Villar in 2010 and Duterte in 2016
Presidential aspirant Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. (File photo) MANILA - The Commission on Elections (Comelec) is looking to hold a virtual promulgation of the decision on the disqualification cases filed against presidential aspirant Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. by next week. "On or before January 17, the Comelec First Division will promulgate its Resolution on the DQ cases versus Marcos Jr. If not too risky, we will read it in the Session Hall on livestream," poll body First Division Presiding Commissioner Rowena Guanzon posted on her Twitter account, @rowena guanzon on Tuesday. On Monday, the division raffled off the disqualification cases against the former Senator that are deemed submitted for resolution. "The cases are submitted for Resolution and have been assigned to a ponente," she said. The petitions were filed by Bonifacio Ilagan and others, Akbayan party, and Abubakar Mangelen. In the Ilagan case, the other petitioners were form
Senior Deputy Executive Secretary Menardo Guevarra says the Office of the President has not received resignation letters from Justice Secretary Vitaliano Aguirre and Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello.
President Rodrigo Duterte will fire Aguirre this week, according to sources, as the chief executive was unhappy with the dismissal of raps against alleged drug lords.
By insisting COVID-19 vaccines remain under the control of big pharmaceutical companies under their TRIPS-mandated 20-year monopoly patents, the WTO has effectively restricted access to these life-saving vaccines especially for countries who need them the most.
The crisis of neoliberalism has been widely discussed long before the outbreak of the COVID-19. The pandemic has even further exposed deep shortcomings in the dominant mode of global economic and political organizations reflected by the WTO. The free trade agreements brokered and promoted by the WTO have perpetuated this system of inequality between nations of the North and the South.