Tonyo Cruz

1 week ago | rappler.com | Tonyo Cruz

Hindi iprinoklama ng Commission on Elections (Comelec) ang Duterte Youth sa kabila ng pagkapanalo nito sa 2025 party-list election dahil dindinig pa ang kasong disqualification laban sa organisasyon na isinampa ng youth leaders noon pang 2019. Ayon sa mga eksperto sa batas, malakas ang kaso laban sa Duterte Youth at, kung magiging patas ang pagdinig, posibleng ma-disqualify nga ang grupo.

1 week ago | mb.com.ph | Tonyo Cruz

HOTSPOTWith Congress, city councils and provincial boards set to resume their lawmaking, and executive officials executing what needs to be executed, here are some ideas that could improve people’s lives one step at a time:Investigate, phase-out and eliminate sub-meters. Government should monitor how landlords bill their tenants for electricity and water, and punish those who overcharge. Perhaps a solution would be to encourage landlords to switch their rental units to prepaid electricity service.

2 weeks ago | mb.com.ph | Tonyo Cruz

HOTSPOTHere is something useful and educational that we could do together: Check out the election results below and beyond the senatorial and partylist races. I'm referring of course to the congressional, provincial, city, municipal and the Muslim Mindanao races. I've checked the election results in Bulacan. In city after city, municipality after municipality, I saw husbands, wives, children swapped, ran and won for the top posts. Some more durable and more daring than others.

3 weeks ago | mb.com.ph | Tonyo Cruz

HOTSPOTIf in the year 2000 you told me that Bayan Muna would top the 2001 partylist elections and get re-elected at least six consecutive times in Congress, I would not have believed you. Bayan Muna just was not supposed to succeed. It is a progressive leftwing party, whose first nominees were the likes of Satur Ocampo, Crispin Beltran and Liza Maza. We campaigned really hard in 2001, hoping against hope that Bayan Muna would get a decent number of votes and perhaps at least one seat.

4 weeks ago | mb.com.ph | Tonyo Cruz

HOTSPOTIn our rural town north of Manila, the former long-time mayor is out to recapture the municipio. Due to term limits, he was denied his dream to be eternal mayor. In the last election, the son became mayor. This year, the father is running again — unopposed. For vice mayor and councilor, they have been mostly the same names for many years now. For representative, it had been the husband for a long time, and then the wife for yet another long time.