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1 week ago | 
manilatimes.net | Francisco S. Tatad
PRESIDENT Bongbong Marcos (BBM) needs a truly functioning Cabinet to help him govern, but we cannot be led into believing that the poor results of the last midterm senatorial election were all due to the middling performance of his Cabinet members, and that he has decided to punish them by asking them to resign. I shall be the first one to say the Cabinet has not always been performing as a real Cabinet, and that is reason enough to junk it even without any grand announcement.
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2 weeks ago | 
manilatimes.net | Francisco S. Tatad
RETIRED high military and police officials under the Alyansa ng Nagkakaisang Mamamayan and religious leaders under the Christian Leaders Council for National Transformation met with members of civil society, and mainstream and social media at the Quezon Memorial Circle in Quezon City on Wednesday afternoon to review the results of the midterm senatorial elections.
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2 weeks ago | 
manilatimes.net | Francisco S. Tatad
Read this in The Manila Times digital edition. RETIRED high military and police officials under the Alyansa ng Nagkakaisang Mamamayan and religious leaders under the Christian Leaders Council for National Transformation met with members of civil society, and mainstream and social media at the Quezon Memorial Circle in Quezon City on Wednesday afternoon to review the results of the midterm senatorial elections.
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2 weeks ago | 
manilatimes.net | Francisco S. Tatad
TWELVE senatorial candidates, and 52 party-list parties have been proclaimed winners in the May 12 midterm election, amid conflicting claims about the integrity of the process. The Commission on Elections (Comelec) was quick to congratulate itself for the 89 percent voting turnout, and the speed with which it counted 58 million votes.
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2 weeks ago | 
manilatimes.net | Francisco S. Tatad
PRESIDENT Bongbong Marcos (BBM) campaigned very hard for a 12-0 Senate slate under his Alyansa Para Sa Bagong Pilipinas, but failed. He produced a few winners — the broadcaster Erwin Tulfo, who landed fourth place; former Senate president Tito Sotto, who landed eighth; movie actor Sen. Lito Lapid, 11th. But some big names failed to make it.
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3 weeks ago | 
manilatimes.net | Francisco S. Tatad
WE just witnessed two extraordinary elections. They had nothing to do with each other. One looked like the antithesis of the other. The first was a Church event, which took place inside the Sistine Chapel. The second, a political exercise held across the entire Philippines. The first was held in utter dignity of all the participants; the second, in open depravity by some of them. I'm writing about this to suggest that perhaps we could learn some useful things from the May 7-8 conclave.
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3 weeks ago | 
manilatimes.net | Francisco S. Tatad
ON May 8, the second day of the 2025 conclave to elect a new pope after Pope Francis died at 88 on April 21, 133 cardinal electors chose Cardinal Robert Prevost, OSA, of Chicago, as the 267th supreme pontiff and leader of the 1.4 billion-strong Catholic Church. The 69-year-old prelate became the first American ("Peruvian," according to the Peruvian bishops,) and first member of the Augustinian order to become pope.
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1 month ago | 
manilatimes.net | Francisco S. Tatad
THE nation owes Sen. Imee Marcos, the president's elder sister, and chairperson of the Senate foreign relations committee, a sincere debt of gratitude for conducting an inquiry in aid of legislation into the circumstances surrounding the March 11 arrest and detention of former president Rodrigo Roa Duterte for crimes against humanity at the International Criminal Court (ICC) at The Hague. Because of that, we know a little bit more of what we might have previously thought was largely unknowable.
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1 month ago | 
manilatimes.net | Francisco S. Tatad
IN one of its boldest moves in 1975, the Philippine government under Ferdinand Marcos Sr. broke the Cold War embargo on the world's socialist countries by establishing diplomatic relations with the People's Republic of China (PROC). It recognized Beijing as the sole governing authority for all of China, including the Republic of China (ROC), or Taiwan.
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1 month ago | 
manilatimes.net | Francisco S. Tatad
AS the May 12 midterm election approaches, a welter of conflicting hopes and fears confronts the Filipino voters. A complete administration debacle? Register to read this story and more for free. Signing up for an account helps us improve your browsing experience. Continue OR See our subscription options. Already have an account? Log in here
