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“We defer to the wisdom of Congress. Hindi naman po nagli-legislate ang Presidente. If that is the solution of some senators, number one, of course it has legal basis; number two it would still depend on them,” presidential spokesperson Harry Roque said at a news conference Monday.

Bayan Muna party-list Reps. Carlos Zarate and Ferdinand Gaite are convinced that the real reason behind the sudden efforts to revive Charter change in Congress is to allow for term extension for politicians. 

Removing the party-list system in the 1987 Constitution will not address the problem of communist rebellion in the country but would only deprive the poor and the marginalized of representation in Congress.

Bayan Muna Rep. Carlos Zarate and other members of the Makabayan bloc claim that the allies of President Rodrigo Duterte in Congress are reviving debates on charter change to keep the administration in power in the upcoming elections.

Advertisement Nine Tumandok Indigenous people were killed and 10 others were arrested in police operations on Panay Island on December 31 in what rights groups labeled a “massacre.” The killings came a week after an off-duty police officer was charged with murder after being caught on video killing a mother and son during an argument. Philippine police said the Indigenous leaders had fought back after being served search warrants, although the human rights group Panay Alliance Karapatan den...

Published December 25, 2020, 1:16 PM Bayan Muna Rep. Ferdinand Gaite asked the Inter-Agency Task Force (IATF) on COVID-19 on Christmas Day to justify why it strongly prefers China’s Sinovac when its reported efficacy rate against the coronavirus is merely 50 percent and is the most expensive compared to other vaccines. Bayan Muna Rep. Ferdinand Gaite (Bayan Muna Rep. Ferdie Gaite Facebook / FILE PHOTO / MANILA BULLETIN) In a statement, Gaite said  that the World Health Organization (WHO) has...

Published December 23, 2020, 7:40 PM A women’s rights group on Wednesday opened its national office in Quezon City to inspection by the Commission on Human Rights (CHR). Members of Gabriela opened boxes and cabinets and allowed CHR personnel to see the rooms of their office in Barangay Laging Handa. Aside from the CHR team, village representatives also took part and witnessed the inspection. In a Facebook post, Gabriela said the inspection was conducted “in response to intensified red-taggi...

After Dutertes accusation, Zarate says money for sons studies abroad came from honest, legitimate sources enablePagination: false endIndex: Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, December 22) — Bayan Muna Rep. Carlos Zarate said there is no truth to President Rodrigo Dutertes claim he has been using money collected by communist rebels to finance his sons education in Poland. In a statement on Tuesday, the party-list lawmaker said the expenses for his only childs studies came from "honest and legitim...

Rep. Pantaleon Alvarez Alvarez confirmed to Manila Bulletin Tuesday night that he had indeed declared that he wanted the double murder suspect cremated alive. A fierce advocate of the death penalty, Alvarez said if he were to decide on Nuezca’s fate, burning, a manner of putting to death a convict during the medieval times, is the correct way of doing it.   “Kung ako tatanungin dapat ang parusa doon cremation, hindi bitay. (If you ask me the punishment should be cremation, not hanging),”...

Makabayan solons buck death penalty revival in light of Tarlac shooting By ERWIN COLCOL, GMA News Published December 22, 2020 3:06pm Members of the House Makabayan Bloc on Tuesday maintained that reinstating death penalty in light of the killing of Sonya and Frank Anthony Gregorio by Police Senior Master Sergeant Jonel Nuezca will not cure the defects in the countrys justice system. The progressive lawmakers made the remark amid renewed calls for the reimposition of capital punishment ...