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SOCE and SALN At the center of PCIJ’s investigations on candidates compliance with campaign-finance reporting are two documents: the Statement of Election Contributions and Expenditures (SOCE) and the Statement of Assets, Liabilities and Net Worth (SALN). BY KAROL ILAGAN AND FLOREEN SIMON May 9, 2021 | 07:00:00 AM   PCIJ, as part of the PAP Consortium, covered campaign finance by monitoring poli...

Duterte govt seeks more funds for anti-communism barangay program Mar 9, 2021 4:58 PM PHT President Rodrigo Dutertes controversial anti-communist task force wants to again ask Congress for funds to reward another 1,375 more barangays for supposedly weeding out communists. National Security Adviser Hermogenes Esperon Jr gave this number during a virtual press briefing on Tuesday, March 9. Esperon is vice chairperson of the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC), a...

(FLICKR / FILE PHOTO) In a petition, Ricarte told the SC that the Comelec should resolve and deny the motion for reconsideration filed by Jonah Pedro Pimentel, whose certificate of candidacy (COC) for vice governor was cancelled by the poll body three days before the May 13, 2019 election. Thus, he said, the Comelec should direct the Camarines Norte provincial board of canvassers to proclaim him vice governor because of the cancellation of Pimentel’s COC. Pimentel’s COC was cancelled for al...

Political parties have until April 30, 2021 to file their petitions to register for the May 2022 polls.

F2F campaign’s fate depends on success of vaccine program  THE HOLDING of the traditional face-to-face campaigning for the upcoming 2022 elections is still possible, depending on the success of the government’s mass immunization drive, Malacañang said on Thursday. In a virtual presser, Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque said in-person campaigns could still be done, if the government reaches its goal to vaccinate “100 percent” of the adult population. “We are aiming to vaccinate ...

THE only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing. – Edmund Burke, Irish statesman and philosopher. Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing. – John Stuart Mill, father of utilitarianism which promotes “happiness and pleasure and the absence of pain.” I don’t presume to be a good man — I’m not that presumptuous — but I hate this country going to the dogs because of the rampa...

That may be a facetious sentence but given Red fronts’ expertise in deception and in using our democratic and legal systems to advance their armed insurgency, that term best describes the recent brilliant move of the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-Elcac). It’s been an open secret that one of the Communist Party’s source of funds has been through its front organizations, masquerading as crusading NGOs, which easily fool gullible bleeding-heart liberals espec...