Nicanor Jesus “Nicky” Pineda Perlas III is a Filipino activist and a recipient of the Right Livelihood Award (also known as the “Alternative Nobel Prize”) in 2003. Currently, he is also a Philippine presidential aspirant for the 2010 presidential elections.
Richard “Dick” Juico Gordon is a Filipino politician, head of the Philippine National Red Cross, and senator of the Republic of the Philippines.
Early life and career
He was born on August 5, 1945 to James Leonard Tagle Gordon and Amelia Juico Gordon, (who were both mayors of Olongapo City). On 1954, he completed his e
Jejomar “Jojo” C. Binay (November 11, 1942) is the current mayor of the City of Makati in the Philippines. He is also the president of the United Opposition (UNO), National President of Partido Demokratiko Pilipino-Laban (PDP-Laban) and National President of the Boy Scouts of the Philippines.
Background
Jejomar Cabauatan Binay was born in Paco, Manila but grew up in Makati with his uncle, Ponciano, after Binay’s parents – Diego Medrano Binay of Bauan, Batangas and Lourdes Cabauatan of Cabagan, Isabela – passed away.
At a young age, Binay learned to rely on his resourcefulness and determination. He went around his neighborhood to gather slop for his uncle’s backyard piggery, looked after his uncle’s fighting cocks, and went to market daily.
MANILA, Philippines – Ousted president Joseph Estrada on Friday said he would decide whether to run in the 2010 presidential elections by the last quarter of 2009.
Estrada said he could tell whether he can still unite the opposition by that time. If his efforts fail, he said would run for president.
“I’m still uniting the opposition… Part of my New Year’s resolution is to double my time to unite the opposition into supporting only one candidate in 2010,” Estrada said.
The Commission on Elections has begun preparations for the 2010 presidential elections having been assured of funds to acquire voting machines.
Chairman Jose Melo told Standard Today that the Comelec was banking on the assurance made by Senator Richard Gordon that the P13.5-billion budget for the automation of the May 2010 election would be made available to the poll body.
MANILA, Philippines – Business tycoon and former ambassador Eduardo “Danding” Cojuangco has revealed that the party he founded in 1992, the Nationalist Peoples’ Coalition (NPC), will field either Senator Loren Legarda or her colleague Sen. Francis Escudero as the party’s standard bearer in 2010 presidential elections.
Cojuangco made the announcement during the NPC Christmas party, which was also attended by heads of other political parties such as Speaker Prospero Nograles, president of Lakas-CMD, and Camarines Sur Rep. Luis Villafuerte, president of Kabalikat ng Malayang Pilipino or Kampi.
Benjamin Nillo, Las Piñas City: Although he’s a good man, I won’t vote for Noli de Castro as the next president. He is not an intellectual and will not make an efficient leader.
Edward Perdido, Ilocos Norte: Yes, I’m very convinced that he’ll be a good president since he is doing his appointed job with results. I think it’s enough basis and training for him to be the president.
MANILA -(Dow Jones)- Philippine senators on Monday voted Senator Juan Ponce Enrile as the new president of the Senate, the third-highest position in the government.
Enrile, the national defense secretary during the regime of the late President Ferdinand Marcos, replaces Senator Manuel Villar, who resigned.
Senator Aquilino Pimentel told ANC television station that Villar had obviously lost the support of the majority.
