(Photo taken from the official Facebook page of Sara Duterte) MANILA-The Lakas-Christian Muslim Democrats (CMD) announced on Wednesday it has officially adopted former senator Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. as its presidential candidate and confirmed Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte as its vice presidential candidate for the 2022 elections. During the Lakas-CMD's Executive Committee (Execom) virtual meeting, the party adopted Resolution No. 09, Series of 2021 confirming and affirming the nomination of Duterte as Lakas-CMD's official candidate for vice president, as well as Resolution No. 10, Series of 2021 formalizing the party's adoption of Marcos, standard-bearer of the Partido Federal ng Pilipinas (PFP), as Duterte's presidential running mate. "Resolved as it is hereby resolved, that Mayor Sara Zimmerman Duterte shall be the official candidate and standard-bearer of Lakas-CMD for vice president in the 09 May 22 national and local elections," the fir
MANILA - President Rodrigo Duterte has no time to engage in premature campaigning for his administration's candidates in the May 9, 2022 national and local elections, Malacanang said Wednesday. "I don't think he has paid too much attention to premature campaigning," Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque said when asked about Duterte's stance on early campaigning. Roque, nevertheless, acknowledged that the administration bets have the advantage to get "command votes," regardless of their popularity, considering that the government is doing its best to defeat the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19). "Whether or not [a candidate] is popular, the fact that number one, there is a pandemic now, it makes command votes even more important for the success of a candidate," he said. Roque added that election hopefuls included in Duterte's ticket in 2022 will also get the full support of the President's allies. "I think that the advantage of b
PFIZER JABS. Personnel from the Department of Health and Bureau of Customs prepare the boxes loaded with 994,500 Pfizer vaccine doses donated by the US government to the Philippines that arrived in Mactan-Cebu International Airport on Wednesday (Oct. 6, 2021). DOH-7 regional director Dr. Jaime Bernadas said the newly arrived vaccine doses will bolster inoculation of senior citizens and the most vulnerable sector in Central Visayas. (Screengrab from Radio Pilipinas Cebu video) CEBU CITY - Almost a million doses of coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) vaccine donated by the United States government arrived in Cebu before dawn on Wednesday, the Department of Health (DOH) in Region 7 (Central Visayas) said. In a virtual presser, DOH-7 regional director Dr. Jaime Bernadas said the 994,500 doses of Pfizer vaccine arranged by the US Agency for International Development (USAID) will be used to bolster inoculation of senior citizens and the most vulnerable sector in the region. Bernadas undersco