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2016 Rodrigo Duterte Presidential Campaign
The 2016 presidential campaign of Rodrigo Duterte was announced on November 21, 2015. Rodrigo Duterte, who was then serving as Mayor of Davao City, had refused to run and turned down other presidential and vice-presidential aspirants' offers to be his running mate, including that of Jejomar Binay, Miriam Defensor-Santiago and Bongbong Marcos. He was eventually elected President of the Philippines. Duterte's positions was seen to have resonated with older, working class Filipinos, particularly his promise to eliminate the wide-scale drug menace of the country and his harsh stances on crime in Davao City, which he served for more than 22 years, and corruption. Duterte's campaign also emphasized an anti-establishment tone, accusing political elites based in Manila of not doing much to solve problems in a move that was described as populist. Background Calls to run for presidency and negotiations In his speech during the change-of-command ceremony of the Philippine National Poli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2016 Philippine Presidential Election
Presidential elections in the Philippines were held on May 9, 2016, as part of the 2016 Philippine general election, 2016 general election. This was the 16th direct presidential election in the country since 1935 Philippine presidential election, 1935 and the fifth wikt:sextennial, sextennial presidential election since 1992 Philippine presidential election, 1992. Incumbent president Benigno Aquino III was ineligible for re-election, pursuant to the Constitution of the Philippines, 1987 Philippine Constitution. Incumbent vice president Jejomar Binay was eligible for re-election but chose to run for the presidency instead. Therefore, this election determined the 16th President of the Philippines, president and the 14th Vice President of the Philippines, vice president. The position of president and Vice President of the Philippines, vice president are elected separately, thus the two winning candidates could come from different political parties. Rodrigo Duterte was elected Pres ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Working Class
The working class is a subset of employees who are compensated with wage or salary-based contracts, whose exact membership varies from definition to definition. Members of the working class rely primarily upon earnings from wage labour. Most common definitions of "working class" in use in the United States limit its membership to workers who hold blue-collar and pink-collar jobs, or whose income is insufficiently high to place them in the middle class, or both. However, socialists define "working class" to include all workers who fall into the category of requiring income from wage labour to subsist; thus, this definition can include almost all of the working population of industrialized economies. Definitions As with many terms describing social class, ''working class'' is defined and used in different ways. One definition used by many socialists is that the working class includes all those who have nothing to sell but their labour, a group otherwise referred to as the p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aquilino Pimentel III
Aquilino Martin "Koko" de la Llana Pimentel III (; born January 20, 1964) is a Filipino politician and lawyer who has served as a senator of the Philippines since 2011. He has served as Senate minority leader since 2022 and previously served as the senate president from 2016 to 2018. The eldest son of former senate president Nene Pimentel, the younger Pimentel is the first child of a previous Senate president to hold the office. Pimentel narrowly lost his bid for the Senate in 2007 to Migz Zubiri, which led to an electoral protest that overturned the initial result, resulting in his proclamation as a senator, taking office in August 2011, four years following the election. Pimentel was subsequently re-elected to the Senate in 2013 under Team PNoy and in 2019 under the Hugpong ng Pagbabago. Pimentel ran in the 2025 Philippine House of Representatives elections to represent Marikina's first district in the lower house, facing off against Marcelino Teodoro, the outgoing ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hugpong Sa Tawong Lungsod
Hugpong sa Tawong Lungsod (English: Party of the City People), commonly referred to as Hugpong, is a Filipino local political party based in Davao City. It was founded by Rodrigo Duterte, former mayor of Davao City and 16th president of the Philippines. Hugpong is the precursor of the regional political party Hugpong ng Pagbabago. History Hugpong was organized in late 2000 as a local political alliance in Davao City by then- first district congressman Rodrigo Duterte, who was making a comeback for mayor of Davao City after a three-year term in Congress. Duterte was then running under PDP–Laban in 2001 against his former ally, then-incumbent mayor Benjamin de Guzman, who coalesced Alyansa sa Katawhan sa Dabaw, the political alliance he co-founded in 1998 with Duterte, with former congressman Prospero Nograles, Duterte's political rival. Duterte won the elections against de Guzman, but Hugpong won only four out of 24 elective seats in the City Council. In 2004, Duterte won ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philippine News Agency
Philippine News Agency (PNA) is the official news agency of the Philippine government. PNA is under the supervision and control of the News and Information Bureau, an attached agency of the Presidential Communications Operations Office. It was established on March 1, 1973, by President Ferdinand Marcos, and currently has its headquarters in Quezon City. History Philippine News Service The Philippine News Service (PNS) was organized in 1950 as a news gathering cooperative by the publishers of the then-leading national newspapers: the Manila Times-Mirror-Taliba, '' Manila Chronicle'', ''Manila Bulletin'', ''Philippines Herald'', ''Evening News'', ''Bagong Buhay'', and '' The Fookien Times''. Its main function was to supply daily news and photos from the provinces to these newspapers, as well as to those in other provinces. Radio and television stations also used PNS stories for a fixed monthly fee or subscription. Foreign news agencies, such as the ''Associated Press'', '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baguio
Baguio ( , , ), officially the City of Baguio (; ; ), is a Cities of the Philippines#Legal classification, highly urbanized city in the Cordillera Administrative Region, Philippines. It is known as the "Summer Capital of the Philippines", owing to its cool climate since the city is located approximately above mean sea level, often cited as in the Luzon tropical pine forests ecoregion, which also makes it conducive for the growth of mossy plants, orchids and pine trees, to which it attributes its other moniker as the "City of Pines". Baguio was established as a hill station by the United States in 1900 at the site of an Ibaloi people, Ibaloi village known as ''Kafagway''. It was the United States' only hill station in Asia. Baguio is classified as a Cities of the Philippines#Classification, highly urbanized city (HUC). It is the largest city in Benguet, serving as the provincial capital from 1901 to 1916, but has since been administered independently from the province fol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Congress Of The Philippines
The Congress of the Philippines () is the legislature of the national government of the Philippines. It is Bicameralism, bicameral, composed of an upper body, the Senate of the Philippines, Senate, and a lower body, the House of Representatives of the Philippines, House of Representatives, although colloquially, the term "Congress" commonly Totum pro parte, refers to just the latter. The Senate meets at the GSIS Building in Pasay, while the House of Representatives meets at the Batasang Pambansa Complex, Batasang Pambansa in Quezon City, which also hosts Joint session of the Congress of the Philippines, joint sessions. The Senate is composed of 24 senators half of which are elected every three years. Each senator, therefore, serves a total of six years. The senators are elected at-large and do not represent any geographical district. In the current 19th Congress of the Philippines, 19th Congress, there are 316 seats in the House of Representatives. The Constitution of the Phili ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manila Bulletin
The ''Manila Bulletin'' () (also known as the ''Bulletin'' and previously known as the ''Manila Daily Bulletin'' from 1906 to September 23, 1972, and the ''Bulletin Today'' from November 22, 1972, to March 10, 1986) is the Philippines' largest English language broadsheet newspaper by circulation. Founded in 1900, it is the second-oldest extant newspaper published in the Philippines and the second-oldest extant English newspaper in the Far East. It bills itself as "The Nation's Leading Newspaper", which is its official slogan. According to a survey done by the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, Manila Bulletin is considered "one of the most trusted news organizations"; placing 2nd with 66% of Filipinos trusting the organization. History ''Manila Bulletin'' was founded on February 2, 1900 by Carlson Taylor as a shipping journal. In 1957, the newspaper was acquired by Swiss expatriate Hans Menzi. From 1938 to his death in 2002, Jose Guevara wrote a column of p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
