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Press Statements

Like Caesar’s wife, the election process should be above suspicion. The seven-hour delay in transmission of results and other glitches like defective VCMs and SD cards are unacceptable. 

Bottlenecks invariably occur in EDSA but must not congest the automated election process.

This is the fourth automated elections conducted by the Comelec and it is therefore too late in the electoral process for the poll agency to be caught flat-footed and unprepared. 

Media Advisory
WHAT:
MEDIA BRIEFING OF THE MAGNIFICENT 7
WHEN:
21 May 2019 (Tuesday) at 2:00 PM
WHERE:
PRESS CONFERENCE ROOM

 

AGENDA:

  1. Like Caesar’s wife, the election process should be above suspicion. The seven-hour delay in transmission of results and other glitches like defective VCMs and SD cards are unacceptable. Bottlenecks invariably occur in EDSA but must not congest the automated election process.

  2. Draconian/regressive measures like: (a) revival of the death penalty; (b) lowering of the age of criminal responsibility; and (c) anti-people amendments to the Human Security Act must be rejected by the Senate.

  3. The amendment to the Public Service Act, which allows aliens and foreign corporations to own and operate public utilities previously reserved for Filipino citizens or corporations, must also be rejected by the Senate. A prior constitutional amendment is necessary and indispensable.

  4. The 18thCongress must guarantee an authentic minority leader.

  5. No to Con-Ass and Federalism.

Press Statements

The Members of the House of Representatives who have declared their intention to run for Speaker all belong to the supermajority and many of them are even seeking the anointment of President Rodrigo Duterte.

Since the declared aspirants, without any exception, are with the coalesced parties of the administration, then they should agree among themselves to field a common administration candidate.

In the News

MANILA, Philippines — It’s not the provincial buses from Bicol region that are creating heavy traffic on Edsa, according to Albay Rep. Edcel Lagman.

He joined three other Bicol lawmakers on Monday in opposing the controversial plan of the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) to ban provincial buses on Edsa and relocate their terminals to Santa Rosa City in Laguna province by June.

Lagman said that buses ferrying passengers to and from Albay and the rest of the Bicol region, as well as those from Northern Luzon, were not the cause of traffic jams on Edsa because “the buses arrive early in the morning before the traffic gridlock starts and depart later in the day when the traffic has subsided.”