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Adiong pushes anti-dynasty bill: a reform ‘40 years in the making’

Lanao del Sur Rep. Zia Alonto Adiong urged Congress to pass a bill banning political dynasties as it began plenary debates on the measure...

5,000 dynasts to be affected by proposed law

A House leader yesterday said the committee-approved bill on political dynasties could lead to displacement of over 5,000 “dynastic” officials. “The numbers speak for themselves—and...

Self-preservation instincts

Article II, Section 26 of the 1987 Constitution provides: “The State shall guarantee equal access to opportunities for public service, and prohibit political dynasties...

Biz groups, NGOs push for strong anti-political dynasty law

A coalition of business groups, civil society organizations, and reform advocates urged Congress to pass a strong Anti-Political Dynasty Law, warning the continued concentration...

Anti-Dynasty law gathers support

A SLIM majority (54 percent) of Filipino adults support the immediate passage of a law banning political dynasties, according to a survey conducted by...

Nearly 4 decades later, a ban on political dynasties?

“The Supreme Court has spoken with clarity: the policy mechanism may have been flawed, but the officials who implemented it in good faith were...

CBCP backs legislative efforts vs. political dynasties

The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) has thrown its full support behind the passage of an anti-dynasty law, with its social action...

The user and the used

"Optics and improvisations, second thoughts and reactions, these will mark the kind of governance our people must suffer for the next 932 days" LEADERSHIP involves...

Group denounces corruption, calls for good governance

Anti-corruption watchdog Kaisa Para Sa Kaunlaran has denounced pervasive government corruption, citing the recent Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) controversy as evidence...

Labor coalition demands sweeping reforms to combat ‘structural corruption’

A labor coalition, citing endemic corruption and structural governance failures, is calling for sweeping political and electoral reforms to dismantle entrenched patronage networks and...

Church-backed Protest Action

The multi-sector Trillion-Peso March Movement backed by the Church holds a press conference at the Arzobispado de Manila in Intramuros to call for mass...

Pass the Anti-Political Dynasty Act now

HOW serious is House Speaker Faustino Dy III in his vow to support an Anti-Political Dynasty Act? The question is apt since Dy recently acknowledged...

Haunted too soon by hallows

HALLOWEEN does not arrive until the last week of October, but the hallows have marched in earlier, clobbering the masses and drowning them, mainly...

Four pillars of corruption

"Let’s radically change our corrupt political system, forthwith!" CORRUPTION in the Philippines is a system, and like any system, it rests on pillars. In flood-control and...
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