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Pacquiao confirms run for congressional seat

Saturday, 21 November 2009 05:10 Cynthia Balana/Inquirer.net

MANILA - Filipino boxing icon Manny Pacquiao said Saturday that he was “100 percent sure” of running for Congress under his own People’s Champ Movement in Sarangani province in the May 2010 general elections.

Interviewed by Vice President Noli de Castro on Saturday over his radio program, “Para sa iyo, Bayan,” Pacquiao said he was in Sarangani to support the filing of the certificates of candidacy of “my mayors” who will run in the local elections.

Villar woos Pacquiao to join Nacionalista Party

Saturday, 21 November 2009 05:08 Michael Lim Ubac/Inquirer.net

MANILA - Aiming for a knockout punch against his rivals this early in the 2010 presidential race, Sen. Manuel "Manny" Villar Jr. has invited world boxing champ Manny "Pacman" Pacquiao to join his corner by running under the Nationalista Party.

"He is my candidate in Sarangani," Villar, the NP standard-bearer, disclosed in an interview Saturday after swearing in former Batangas Gov. Armando Sanchez and 176 local officials as new members of NP in Batangas City.

Estrada son returns to Malacañang

Saturday, 21 November 2009 05:06 Christine Avendano/Inquirer.net

MANILA – Eight years after his father, former President Joseph Estrada, was forced out of Malacañang, Senate President Pro Tempore Jinggoy Estrada was back in Malacañang Friday for the first time since that fateful day in January 2001.

Estrada was there to represent Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile in a luncheon hosted by President Macapagal-Arroyo for a visiting Chinese delegation.

Comelec OKs 14 presidential bets; 3 for Senate

Friday, 20 November 2009 05:16 Anna Valmero/Inquirer.net

MANILA - Over 20 aspirants for the presidency and the Senate have filed their certificates of candidacies (CoC), including a “messiah,” a quantum physics professor, and a retired general.

But only 14 CoCs for president and three for senator were accepted by the Commission on Elections Friday at the start of the filing of candidacies.

Marcos party joins forces with Villar’s NP

Friday, 20 November 2009 05:13 Katherine Evangelista/Inquirer.net

MANILA - The opposition party Kilusang Bagong Lipunan (KBL), led by Ilocos Norte Representative (2nd District) Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos, Jr. sealed an alliance with the Nacionalista Party (NP) Friday.

Similar to a traditional wedding in the north, Marcos, only son of the late president Ferdinand Marcos, gave NP standard-bearer Senator Manuel Villar a salakot, a native headwear, after the formal signing of the agreement forging the alliance at the NP headquarters in Laurel House in Mandaluyong City.