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Danding Cojuangco, tycoon and political kingpin, dies at 85

Jun 17, 2020 - 9:17 AM

(UPDATED) The businessman built food and beverage giant San Miguel Corporation and was a key ally of Ferdinand Marcos

BOSS DANDING. Cojuangco headed San Miguel Corporation, considered the largest food and beverage corporation in the Philippines and Southeast Asia, since 1998. Photo courtesy of Edwin Tuyay

Nationalist People's Coalition calls for 'effective, more inclusive' mass testing

Apr 20, 2020 - 1:25 PM

The 54 politicians allied with the Nationalist People's Coalition ask the national government to be more transparent with COVID-19 data and to assist LGUs in creating their own testing labs

MASS TESTING CALL. A health worker conducts a swab test on a suspected COVID-19 patient in Sta. Ana Hospital in Manila on April 17, 2020. Photo by Lisa Marie David/Rappler

NPC drops congressional bet running vs Vilma Santos Recto

Oct 18, 2018 - 8:46 PM

Outgoing Lipa Mayor Meynard Sabili, who is eyeing the city's lone congressional seat, will now run as an independent

CONGRESSIONAL RACE. Lipa City Mayor Meynard Sabili wants to challenge Congresswoman Vilma Santos Recto in the May 2019 polls. File photo by Tina Ganzon-Ozaeta

Loren Legarda running for Antique congresswoman

Oct 18, 2018 - 4:35 PM

Outgoing Senator Loren Legarda is running under the Nationalist People's Coalition

Senator Loren Legarda during the Senate hearing on the 2019 budget of the Department of Justice and its attached agency on October 3, 2018. Photo by Angie de Silva/Rappler

JV Ejercito leaves dad's party for Nationalist People's Coalition

Oct 10, 2018 - 12:59 PM

'It was a difficult decision,' Senator JV Ejercito says of leaving his father's Pwersa ng Masang Pilipino

OATH. Senator JV Ejercito (left) joins the Nationalist People's Coalition. Photo by Angie de Silva/Rappler

JV Ejercito leaves Erap's party over feud with Jinggoy

Oct 08, 2018 - 1:14 PM

Senator JV Ejercito says he and his father have not spoken 'for a long time now' following Jinggoy's announcement of his own Senate bid. 'Hindi lang tampo, masama talaga loob ko.'

Coco levy fund: Duterte's failed promise

Jul 19, 2018 - 5:52 PM

'He's been doing it all along for other bills like the death penalty, lowering of age [of criminal responsibility], why not do this for his campaign promise, coco levy?'

FAILED CAMPAIGN PROMISE? President Rodrigo Duterte promises coconut farmers that he would return the coco levy funds to them. Two years into his term, the promise remains just that. File photo by Rappler

Sotto vows to campaign 'vigorously' for reelectionist senators in 2019

May 23, 2018 - 7:49 AM

'I’m not running in 2019. My term ends in 2022. I will be able to help those who we feel would be assets to the Senate,' Senate President Vicente Sotto III tells Rappler

2019 CAMPAIGN. Senate President Vicente Sotto III vows to campaign 'vigourously' for the 7 reelectionist senators.

Sotto says NPC eyeing Ted Failon as 2019 senatorial candidate

May 22, 2018 - 8:48 PM

Senate President Vicente Sotto III tells Rappler the Nationalist People's Coalition has decided to support a coalition of candidates, which they will finalize soon

President Rodrigo Roa Duterte confers the Volunteers Against Crime and Corruption (VACC) Pillars of Criminal Justice System Major Award for Anti-Corruption Campaign to Broadcaster Ted Failon for his program 'Failon Ngayon' during the 19th founding anniversary of VACC at the Malacañan Palace on August 16, 2017. Also in the photo is VACC Chair Dante Jimenez. ROBINSON NIÑAL JR./PRESIDENTIAL PHOTO

Paete local bets tackle water shortage, leadership in town debate

May 04, 2016 - 3:34 PM

Aside from the usual promises mayoral candidates discuss their plans to solve Paete s water shortage problem

PAETE VOTE. Mayoral candidates Rojilyn Bagabaldo (left) and Marcelino Cadayona (right) answer questions prepared by the youth of Paete. Photo by Mary Joy Gelit/ Rappler

Raul Roco's Aksyon Demokratiko endorses Grace Poe

Apr 21, 2016 - 7:59 PM

Among her new supporters are candidates of the Liberal Party the United Nationalist Alliance Pwersa ng Masang Pilipino and the Nationalist People’s Coalition

Photo by Gary Jimenez/Office of Sen Poe

SC ruling 'vindication' of Senate Electoral Tribunal – Sotto

Mar 09, 2016 - 1:39 PM

The senator a member of the SET and who is running for reelection on Grace Poe’s ticket remains confident the High Court ruling allowing Poe’s presidential bid will not be overturned

VINDICATED. Reelectionist Senator Vicente Sotto III (shown here campaigning in Quezon province on March 9, 2016), a member of the Senate Electoral Tribunal, says the Supreme Court decision allowing presidential candidate Grace Poe to run, vindicated SET's own ruling that Poe is a natural-born Filipino. Photo by Camille Elemia/Rappler

Governor of Binay home province endorses Roxas

Oct 30, 2015 - 2:30 PM

Looking back to 2010 however Isabela Governor Bodjie Dy does not have a good record of making his presidential bet win

Local Vote: Cagayan, Negros Occidental, Tacloban City, Leyte

Aug 22, 2015 - 4:08 PM

Rappler s weekly wrap up: Not campaigning? Declared LP bet distributes PCSO ambulances in Cagayan; Negros Occidental’s closely watched contest: vice governorship; Romualdez wives to seek husbands posts;

 FROM LEFT: Presidential Legislative Liaison Officer Manuel Mamba of Cagayan, 4th District Representative Jeffrey Ferrer of Negros Occidental, and Councilor Cristina Gonzalez of Tacloban City, Leyte

Successor of slain Negros Occidental board member named

Jul 16, 2015 - 8:00 AM

The Nationalist People’s Coalition chooses former Board Member Angelito Colmenares over the son of slain Board Member Renato Malabor

REPLACEMENT. The Nationalist People's Coalition in Negros Occidental has chosen former Board Member Angelito Colmenares to replace slain 5th District Board Member Renato Malabor. Photo by courtesy of the Negros Occidental PIO

Pagadian interfaith leaders condemn election-related killings

May 02, 2013 - 9:46 PM

Faith leaders condemn escalating attacks on Pagadian candidates barely two weeks before election

UNA: LP lying about Mrs Binay

Mar 23, 2013 - 9:28 PM

UNA insists the Sandiganbayan lifted the hold departure order against the wife of Vice President Jejomar Binay