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Marcos could show the world that it respects human rights and is serious about advancing accountability by cooperating with the ICC in its probe.

Neither survey results nor mammoth crowds in campaign rallies can make a candidate win. But somehow, these indicate a candidate's popularity or unpopularity. The actual votes we will cast next Monday are what will make candidates win.

He probably thought he was already close to the presidency if he got the endorsement of 1Sambayan, until Robredo gave in to calls for her to run for higher office.

The show of force for Vice President Leni Robredo on Macapagal Avenue in Pasay City on April 23 amply demonstrated her camp’s strength of purpose, and the burgeoning numbers — per estimates, 412,000 at the site and 171,000 on livestream (although often faltering by dint of a dropping internet signal) — foreshadowed a pitched battle with the survey front-runner Ferdinand Marcos Jr. at the polls.

Whoever loses in the May 9 elections for President will have a hard time accepting defeat, but for very different reasons.

Three candidates – Lacson, Moreno and Gonzales – tried to dictate their will in the upcoming presidential race from the opulent perch of their press conference at the plush Manila Peninsula Hotel over the weekend. How can these three candidates, haunted by shady and fraudulent credentials, have the moral ascendancy to prescribe which candidate should run and who should withdraw?

I speak as a layperson who has studied Catholic theology and catechism.

There are ten candidates for president of the Philippines, including one who refuses to attend debates as a matter of calibrated packaging and four who should have been declared as nuisance candidates.

At the proclamation rally last month of boxing champ-turned-presidential aspirant Emmanuel "Manny" Pacquiao, his mother, Dionisia, said in jest that she was worried her son would run out of money after the campaign because he has been giving it away.

The May 9 election for President of the Philippines is going to be a historic one, one way or the other.

​ What vested interest does China have in the forthcoming presidential elections?

It’s been years since I’ve attended a political rally, and more than a decade since I attended one for a presidential candidate. But I found myself with a ringside seat at the UniTeam’s Barotac Nuevo (Iloilo) rally thanks to Dr Ferjenel Biron, an ex- and returning congressman and the political leader and kingpin of the 4th District of Iloilo.

The sect also goes by another name, Ina Poon Bato Simbahang Naglalakbay.

Muhammad Ali, arguably, was the best boxer of all time. For my generation at least. Not only could he “float like a butterfly and sting like a bee”, he was, as he was always boasting, “pretty” - while opponents like Joe Frazier were “ugly”.

We continually ask that question in earnest, because even her detractors cannot answer it objectively.

One of the most pointed attacks being levied against the leading candidate for president is one word: Magnanakaw (Thief).

It has happened not just once but twice already that the Marcos camp knew about the decisions of the Commission on Elections (Comelec) ahead of the public, fueling speculations that it is getting insider information pertaining to the petitions against presidential aspirant Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr.

I had tried very much to understand where Aimee Ferolino Ampoloquio was coming from.

When a candidate promises to build more infrastructure and provide funds for livelihood and small businesses if elected, he or she must tell voters where he or she would get the money for these.

It was a baptism of fire that not only tested her mettle, but ultimately changed the political equation in Cadiz City, Negros Occidental.

If we are to believe the surveys, it appears that Vice President Maria Leonor "Leni" Robredo's agenda for people living in the laylayan (fringe) of society has yet to have considerable impact on the targeted population segment.

Just a day after Jessica Soho made a big splash in her brand of presidential interviews on Jan. 22 over Channel 7, Boy Abunda followed with his own concept of presidential encounters on Jan. 24 onwards on his YouTube channel.

How many of you have given this a thought: what would you have asked the presidential candidates had you been in the shoes of Jessica Soho - or even Tito Boy Abunda, for that matter?

Ferdinand Marcos, the dictator, loved writing diary entries.