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                    [Title] => SC asked to stop political dynasties
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The question on political dynasties has reached the Supreme Court (SC), seven months before the midterm elections next year.

[DatePublished] => 2012-10-20 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1096875 [AuthorName] => Edu Punay [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 572803 [Title] => Sotto overwhelmed by mounting support [Summary] =>

With barely 10 days before the elections, former senator Vicente C. Sotto III said he was happy for the support of various sectors and personalities.

[DatePublished] => 2010-05-07 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Cebu News [SectionUrl] => cebu-news [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 418061 [Title] => Two senators vs amendments after 2010 [Summary] =>

Two members of the current Senate majority blew down the optimistic prediction of House leaders behind their proposal for a Constitutional Convention of both House of Congress to amend the Constitution.

[DatePublished] => 2008-11-25 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 136001 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1708470 [AuthorName] => Rolly Espina [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 234247 [Title] => Analysts: Erap won’t be very influential in an FPJ presidency [Summary] => Ousted President Joseph Estrada will have little influence in a Fernando Poe Jr. administration, two political analysts said yesterday.

Benito Lim, a University of the Philippines political analyst, said Estrada’s power to influence Poe has been diminished by his detention.

"He (Estrada) still has a following from the E (urban poor) class of society," Lim said. "But he is now in detention and this is a problem for him. His power to influence has been somewhat diminished."
[DatePublished] => 2004-01-07 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1097368 [AuthorName] => Mike Frialde [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 232837 [Title] => FPJ seeking reunification talks with Ping — Remulla [Summary] => Despite accepting his nomination as standard-bearer by the opposition political coalition pushing his presidential bid, movie actor Fernando Poe Jr. is seeking to jumpstart another round of "unification" talks with rival Sen. Panfilo Lacson.

But the plan might not push through since there are people influencing Poe against it, Cavite Rep. Gilbert Remulla claimed yesterday.
[DatePublished] => 2003-12-25 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1097133 [AuthorName] => Jose Rodel Clapano [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 220493 [Title] => When will this political telenovela ever end? [Summary] => While the big news hugging the national headlines is still mostly about the controversy over the expose’ made by Sen. Panfilo Lacson against First Gentleman Mike Arroyo, we know too well that there is someone behind all this happenings in the Senate which has virtually torn the country apart! We have written before that during the Presidency of then President Joseph Estrada, he was a mere actor doing a movie in Malacanang with script writers and a Director behind the scenes orchestrating a real life telenovela.
[DatePublished] => 2003-09-15 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134429 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1805274 [AuthorName] => Bobit S. Avila [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 208010 [Title] => Con-con will need one year to amend Charter — Drilon [Summary] => Senate President Franklin Drilon said amendments to the Constitution should be given at least a year to work on by a constitutional convention and not by a constituent assembly.

He said giving a constitutional convention a year was reasonable as "we simply do not have the time" to make amendments to the 1987 Charter before the elections in May next year.

Sen. Edgardo Angara and Sen. Robert Barbers filed a resolution in January calling for Congress to convene into a constituent assembly and pass amendments.
[DatePublished] => 2003-05-29 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1127935 [AuthorName] => Ann Corvera [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 202180 [Title] => Senate to tackle Cha-cha after Lent [Summary] => The Senate is scheduled to tackle the Cha-cha (Charter change) issue after the current congressional Lenten break which ends next weekend.

Sources told The STAR yesterday that senators would most likely constitute themselves into a committee of the whole to take up two constitutional amendment-related resolutions.

One resolution is authored by opposition Sen. Edgardo Angara and Sen. Robert Barbers, who belongs to the ruling Lakas party. It seeks the convening of Congress into a constituent assembly to propose Charter changes.
[DatePublished] => 2003-04-10 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 187002 [Title] => Roco on VP mate: Mum’s the word [Summary] => Former Sen. Raul Roco kept mum yesterday over his most probable choice for vice president in the 2004 presidential elections.

He said that a lot of factors would be considered in picking a running mate, including endorsements by various groups supporting him.

The other day, Sen. Loren Legarda said she was not discounting the possibility of being the running mate of Roco, although she stressed that Roco had not approached her at all for the formation of such a ticket.
[DatePublished] => 2002-12-08 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1297981 [AuthorName] => Efren Danao [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 174754 [Title] => DOTC chief gets CA nod - in 1 day [Summary] => The Commission on Appointments unanimously confirmed yesterday the ad interim appointment of Transportation and Communications Secretary Leandro Mendoza and 21 military officers.

The confirmation of Mendoza came after the CA committee on transportation and communications headed by Quezon Rep. Rafael Nantes endorsed him on the very first hearing yesterday that took only about an hour to finish.

"It is one of the shortest confirmation hearings in committee history," admitted Nantes.
[DatePublished] => 2002-09-05 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1297981 [AuthorName] => Efren Danao [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) ) )
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