Dr. Vina Luna (not her real name), 51, is fed up with the administration’s abuse of power, especially the wave of killings after President Duterte took office. “I don’t like what’s happening in our country. Every time I see the news on TV, I get mad,” she said during the oath-taking in Quezon City Friday. […]
Category Archives: Press Release
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Jan
Jan
Ifugao Rep. Teddy Baguilat, head of Partido Liberal’s national organizing and membership committee, said over 500 new party members took their oath Friday night in the three cities of Manila, Cebu, and Naga. “These are all card-bearing, committed, non-politician Liberals,” said Baguilat, who led the oath-taking in Naga. “Many of them applied through the party’s […]
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Jan
Jan
Partido Liberal on Friday, January 19, celebrated its 72nd founding anniversary with a gathering of members and supporters in the cities of Quezon, Cebu, and Naga, and the launch of its online recruitment platform. Hundreds of new non-politician members also took their oath in simultaneous ceremonies. In Quezon City, among them is a woman-doctor who […]
Press Release
Diokno slamming door on teachers’ pay raise is insensitive, heartless — Partido Liberal senators
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Jan
Jan
The statement of Budget Secretary Benjamin Diokno that a salary increase for public school teachers was not a priority at this time was insensitive, if not heartless, Partido Liberal senators said Thursday. “It’s not certainly the way to treat our public school teachers, who have been seeking government’s help for higher salaries and additional benefits so […]
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Jan
Jan
Partido Liberal senators on Thursday slammed Ferdinand Marcos Jr. for questioning the credibility of the Presidential Electoral Tribunal (PET), whom he charged of being unfair in his election protest against Vice President Leni Robredo. “Hindi maganda na kwestyunin mo ang kredibilidad ng PET kung hindi pabor sa iyo ang mga desisyon,” said Partido Liberal president […]
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Dec
Dec
Partido Liberal senators lamented that justice lost today with the appointment of former Customs Commissioner Nicanor Faeldon as deputy administrator of the Office of Civil Defense. Senators Francis Pangilinan, Bam Aquino, and Franklin Drilon maintained that President Duterte should appoint persons with unblemished reputation and not those involved in past anomalies, if he’s really serious […]
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Dec
Dec
Liberal senators urged the government to conduct a fair and impartial investigation into the failed dengue vaccine program. “We support calls for investigation of this issue as thousands of children’s lives are at stake here. We must ensure that the investigation will not be selective and will cover all periods of implementation of the program,” […]
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Nov
Nov
Ladies and gentlemen, good evening. Allow me first to congratulate the Freedom Flame awardees tonight and thank you to the FNF for this tradition. During Marcos’s martial rule, and even before the dictator and his family fled in February of 1986, as a student activist, I already knew the taste, the feel, and the smell […]
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Nov
Nov
The government’s plan to bring the Philippine National Police (PNP) back to its war on drugs raises suspicions about its sincerity in solving the drug problem and its real objectives, according to Partido Liberal senators. “Bakit ibabalik sa PNP? Kumpiyansa na ba tayo na wala nang mga mapang-abusong kapulisan? Wala namang malinaw na cleansing, wala […]
Press Release
NON-POLITICIANS TAKE OATH AS PARTIDO LIBERAL, ‘READY TO TAKE ON CHALLENGES OF THE TIMES’
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Nov
Nov
Over 100 non-politicians on Tuesday night took their oath as new members of Partido Liberal in Quezon City, marking the shift of the opposition party into a people’s party, the direction set by party president Sen. Kiko Pangilinan. Partido Liberal chairperson Vice President Leni Robredo administered the oath to the new members who come mostly […]