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The Supreme Court affirmed the Commission on Elections’ dismissal of the vote-buying complaint filed right after Quezon City Mayor Joy Belmonte and Vice Mayor Gian Sotto won in the 13 May 2019 polls. The SC ruling likewise also cleared the alleged vote-buying charges of then congressional candidate Elizabeth Delarmente and television host Willie Revillame. To

WITH less than 30 days left before the May 9 elections, more members of Congress and local executives are expected “to flee and jump off their sinking ships.” In a statement, Anakalusugan Rep. Michael T. Defensor said they expect politicians who are still supporting other presidential and vice-presidential candidates to…

MAYORAL hopeful Michael T. Defensor has dared Mayor Joy Belmonte on a debate on the issues concerning the “future” of Quezon City. Defensor issued the challenged over the weekend as Belmonte raised the closure of ABS-CBN Broadcasting Corp. during the Serbisyo sa Bayan Party’s (SBP) proclamation rally and his distribution…

THE regional wage board in the National Capital Region (NCR) said it is now tapping the Department of Energy (DOE) in its review of a wage petition filed in 2019. Regional Tripartite Wages and Productivity Board-National Capital Region (RTWPB-NCR) Chairman Sarah B. Mirasol said they will be conducting the formal…

SEEING ripple effects of sanctions against Russia, Anakalusugan Rep. Michael T. Defensor is asking the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA) to extend financial aid to families of Filipino workers in the former Soviet Republic. According to Defensor, “the global sanctions are bound to hit Russia’s banking system very hard, possibly…

AS a fresh batch of nearly 10,000 Filipino nurses tries to enter the US labor market, a lawmaker said last Sunday that the enforcement of a cap on overseas deployable healthcare workers is against the Constitution. Rep. Michael T. Defensor of Anakalusugan renewed his call for the scrapping of the…

THE Commission on Elections (Comelec) said the 150-day election period officially started on Sunday, January 9, 2022, with several checkpoint operations in strategic locations to strictly implement the nationwide prohibition on the carrying of firearms. Under the calendar for “Eleksyon” 2022, the election period started on January 9 with the…

A lawmaker on Sunday said depositors who lost money due to computer hacking should file formal complaints with the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP). Rep. Michael T. Defensor of Anakalusugan said in a statement that victims should seek assistance if they are not satisfied with the way their cases were…

DUE to bureaucratic red tape, a lawmaker on Sunday said 700 testing machines capable of detecting the Covid-19 virus in 45 minutes remain largely untapped amid the health crisis. Anakalusugan Rep. Michael T. Defensor was quoted in a statement as saying that the machines were donated by GeneXpert. A search…

THE Quezon City government has criticized Anakalusugan Rep. Michael T. Defensor, who has eyes on the mayoral seat in the 2022 elections, for “misleading the public on an alleged forthcoming tax hike.” “He is lying,” City Attorney Orlando Paolo F. Casimiro was quoted in a statement as saying. “The ordinance…