Category: Politics

Desperate Opposition and dismal Robredo popularity amid rising Marcos numbers confirm fraud that cost Marcos VP win in 2016

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Desperate Opposition and dismal Robredo popularity amid rising Marcos numbers confirm fraud that cost Marcos VP win in 2016

In his Inquirer piece “President Robredo”, Joel Ruiz Butuyan refers to a “political force” that, Buntuyan suggests, could include former supporters of President Rodrigo Duterte who are “completely disillusioned now, and don’t want his chosen candidate as his successor.” He also proposes that members of this political force “concede that Vice President Leni Robredo is…

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Antonio Carpio’s lies about the South China Sea dispute cause false sense of nationalism

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Antonio Carpio’s lies about the South China Sea dispute cause false sense of nationalism

A more rational view of the game of chicken being played in the South China Sea is presented by Inquirer columnist and former Supreme Court Associate Justice Artemio Panganiban in his piece “The game of chicken and Scarborough”. Panganiban doesn’t criticize Retired Justice and leader of Opposition bloc 1Sambayan Antonio Carpio but the hints are…

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History, Politics

Strong nation, iron fist rule may be the path forward for the Philippines

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Strong nation, iron fist rule may be the path forward for the Philippines

Is Professor Randy David giving up on liberal democracy and being a progressive leftist militant? The ideology of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) is based on Maoist principles and yet, it is convenient for them to mouth insults and pro-Philippine epithets against their former patrons. Yet here is David seemingly touching on the…

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History, Politics

The insanity that is the Philippine Presidential System—Why “voting wisely” never works

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The insanity that is the Philippine Presidential System—Why “voting wisely” never works

The Presidential system, in the case of the Philippines, is a hit-or-miss phenomenon. You get a random Joe to run for the highest office in the land in a once-in-a-lifetime chance and hold said office for 6 years. If he’s bad, at least he’ll get to ruin the country for only 6 years. If he’s…

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Charter Change, Government, Politics

Candidates wanting to mount a CREDIBLE challenge to Duterte should avoid fake campaign “consultants”

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Candidates wanting to mount a CREDIBLE challenge to Duterte should avoid fake campaign “consultants”

The now self-appointed “Chief Political Analyst” and Dr La Salle University professor Antonio Contreras details in his Manila Times piece “Surveying beyond who is leading: Looking into the minds of voters” a survey on “what drives voters to make certain preferences and choices”. The survey, Contreras writes, aims to inform candidates making a bid for…

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Business, Politics

Natural gas BILLIONS behind an Opposition desperate to block another Duterte or Marcos presidency

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Natural gas BILLIONS behind an Opposition desperate to block another Duterte or Marcos presidency

Inquirer columnist Winnie Monsod in her piece “Will Duterte stand by PH, as P-Noy did?” gives us some inside insight into what may have gone one behind the scenes in the administration of the late former President Noynoy Aquino with regard to the South China Sea dispute. She relates how one faction within the administration…

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Business, Politics

Duterte trolling the Opposition with VP run confirmation. Opposition react predictably!

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Duterte trolling the Opposition with VP run confirmation. Opposition react predictably!

Trolling the opposition. I keep saying that any candidate who wants to have a chance at winning in 2022 should be as disruptive as he was in 2015. President Rodrigo Duterte is setting the narrative again and is on top of it. The pandemic has caused great disruption which needs an equal or greater appropriate…

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Politics

The Opposition’s futile milking of Noynoy Aquino’s death will destroy rather than build coalitions

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The Opposition’s futile milking of Noynoy Aquino’s death will destroy rather than build coalitions

I keep wondering about which planet Inquirer columnist Manuel L Quezon III (MLQ3) is on. It’s definitely not earth given the analysis he lays out in his piece “‘Obosen’”. First, what administration coalition is he talking about during the Aquino administration? According to MLQ3, “it was the breakup of the former president’s coalition that allowed…

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