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The President in his fifth SONA laid out priorities such as a better transportation system and even a rocket ship launch in the future. Analysts say the speech lacked concrete financing plans.
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President Bongbong Marcos, Jr. highlighted key policies on the transportation system while floating nuclear power as an option for energy security, and cutting systems loss.
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"Politically, it suggests that the majority is already thinking defensively and trying to insulate itself from potential instability within its ranks," experts weigh in on the walkout.
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Impeachment is never a simple accountability mechanism. It is a destabilizing political event.
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Copying foreign legislation becomes a very poor substitute for confronting difficult domestic problems.
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The question is whether the House will function as a deliberative constitutional body or as a coalition arena governed primarily by strategic calculation.
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For some politicians, the impeachment process is a free stage to go strutting on their high horse.
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Simply put, lawmakers are solely responsible for getting these necessary reforms done.
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For as long as political dynasties control both legislative power and private enterprises, the nation will remain trapped in a cycle of corruption and catastrophe.
My colleagues in the Ateneo Policy Center published a paper in 2022 entitled, Political dynasties, business, and poverty in the Philippines, wherein they showed that a clear majority of political families own construction companies. Today we call them "congtractors", a clever portmanteau ...
The Marcos admin has its hands full as it wages war on corruption.
The government of Philippine President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos, Jr. continues to have its hands full following the uncovered anomalous contracts linked to substandard or ghost flood-control structures. The Department of National Defense (DND) is now pointing fingers at unnamed "foreign actors" ...
These lawmakers are showing that they have nothing to hide.
As the Marcos administration's burgeoning war on corruption wages on, a handful of lawmakers have taken it upon themselves to cultivate a culture of transparency among those in the legislature, as more of their colleagues are getting accused of allegedly swindling ...
A lawyer and constitutionalist says it's high time for a new set of leaders.
The political status quo has become utterly untenable. People are tired of the same names, the same broken promises, the same lies. Many Filipinos are clamouring for a reset. The rot and vile in government are just too much to bear. Gen ...
It seems some fiscal fishiness is going on in the Upper Chamber, Senator Ping Lacson says.
Public outrage and alarming concern over widespread corruption riddled in the country's legislature and bureacracy has reached fever pitch over the last few weeks. No-nonsense Blue Ribbon Committee chairman Senator Panfilo "Ping" Lacson has now pointed fingers at the previous ...
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