Presidential son and Pampanga Rep. Juan Miguel "Mikey" Arroyo said Wednesday he is willing to help priest-turned-governor Eddie Panlilio until the administration Lakas-Kampi-CMD party picks its standard bearer for the 2010 elections.
At Malacañang, Executive Secretary Eduardo Ermita said Panlilio should be allowed to pursue his dream to seek higher public office next year.
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MANILA – Sen. Manuel Villar kept his lead in a June 2009 leadership poll of the Social Weather Stations (SWS), while former president Joseph Estrada made a huge 12% gain that pushed him to second best leader to succeed President Arroyo in 2010.
In the nationwide SWS second quarter survey released Wednesday by Businessworld, Villar was the top pick of respondents with one out of every 3 respondents choosing
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Priest-turned-Pampanga Gov. Eddie Panlilio on Tuesday declared “God is calling" him to seek the presidency next year, as he announced his intention to file his candidacy in late November even if it would mean leaving his religious vocation.
Panlilio, who is on leave from priesthood, firmed up his presidential bid at the weekly forum organized by the Catholic Media Network in Intramuros, Manila, Tuesday aft
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MANILA – Former President Fidel V. Ramos lashed out at hints of President Arroyo perpetuating herself in power beyond 2010.
“Going up to the summit is optional. But coming down is mandatory,” he said in a forum on Thursday in Makati. “You cannot stay at the top forever,” he added, citing a quote from Team Everest, whose members include the first Filipinos who climbed the 28,000 feet high Mount Evere
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MANILA, Philippines – The Commission on Elections (Comelec) on Friday afternoon finally sealed the poll automation deal with winning consortium Smartmatic Corp.-Total Information Management (TIM) notwithstanding a petition for the Supreme Court to bar the signing of the P7.2-billion contract.
The signing of the contract will start the preparations for the first and historic automation program for the Philipp
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MANILA, Philippines – The dispute has ended. Smartmatic and its Filipino partner, Total Information Management (TIM), were able to iron out their differences over the control of funds for the P11.3-billion poll automation project after a three-hour meeting Friday.
"It’s a go for poll automation. Smartmatic and TIM are right now signing their joint venture incorporation papers," Commission on
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MANILA, Philippines – The Commission on Elections (Comelec) will know today whether or not partners Netherlands-based Smartmatic Corp. and Filipino-owned Total Information Management Corp. (TIM) have reconciled their differences and register as a joint venture to fulfill their contract to automate the 2010 elections.
Comelec spokesman James Jimenez yesterday said poll officials are clueless if the two firms
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MANILA, Philippines – The Commission on Elections has given the Netherlands-based Smartmatic Corp. and Filipino-owned Total Information Management Corp. (TIM) until Friday to decide whether or not they could push through with the automation contract for the 2010 elections.
Comelec chairman Jose Melo announced yesterday that money was the root of the fallout between the two companies, jeopardizing the automa
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Total Information Management Corp. (TIM) has pulled out of its partnership with Smartmatic Corp., putting the P11.3-billion poll automation project next year in jeopardy.
“Mr. Jose Antuñez (President of TIM) came to my office and told me they are withdrawing from the project citing their irreconcilable differences (with Smartmatic)," Elections Chairman Jose Melo told reporters, without mentioning the natu
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MANILA, Philippines – If President Arroyo decides to run for a congressional seat in Pampanga in the 2010 elections, it would be tantamount to abandoning the presidency, Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile said yesterday.
“I don’t think constitutionally she can do it, to run without forfeiting her seat as President,” he said.
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