Sen. Manny Villar, Jr. the presidential candidate of Naciolista Party (NP) is still the biggest spender among the presidential aspirants. Villar, has spent over P120 million from February 9 to March 2 on TV advertisements alone, advocacy group Libertas said, citing figures on political advertisement spending from AGB Nielsen.
Manny Villar’s face is almost everywhere, from campaign posters on the streets to the Facebook. There is no wonder why he is on the top of the list in the biggest spender.
Second to Villar, is the deposed President Joseph Estrada of Pwersa ng Masang Pilipino with declared expenditures of P88 million, followed by Sen. Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III of Liberal Party with P87 million and Sen. Richard Gordon (Bagumbayan) with P67.3 million.
Administration party bet Gilberto Teodoro Jr. (Lakas-Kampi-CMD) ranked fifth, spending only P 60, 480 million on TV commercials since the start of the campaign period.
Teodoro, however, will rank second to Villar if the amount of money spent on ads from November 1 last year would be taken into account. The former Defense secretary has spent almost half a billion pesos (P472,810,675 million) on TV ads from November 1 last year to March 2 this year, the AGB Nielsen showed.
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Manny Villar Tops the Biggest Spender List in Philippines ‘most expensive election’
by admin, on Thu, Mar 4 2010 | No CommentsGordon says Villar tried to buy him out of Presidential Race
by admin, on Tue, Mar 2 2010 | No CommentsIn an interview, the presidential aspirant Sen. Richard “Dick” Gordon told the press that his fellow senator and presidential aspirant tried to buy him out of the presidential race. Gordon said to ANC’s Top Story that Manny Villar sent an emissary to bribe him by offering a Cabinet position and reimbursement of his campaign expenses in exchange for backing out of the presidential race.
Sen. Gordon said that the offer was made during the last week of January where the issue of the Senate Committee of the Whole’s report recommending the censure of Villar for unethical conduct in connection with the C-5 road project is on its height.
According to Gordon, the main objective of the Villar camp is to convince him to side Villar so that they would be able to oust Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile as Senate president and stop the Senate plenary deliberations on the ethics case.
Gordon said the emissary was a “former Cabinet official of yesteryears,” and a “businessman, not a political operator.” He said the emissary was “just trying to be a friend to his friend” and was just “delivering a message” for Villar.
“Quite frankly, I was [also] put off by it,” Gordon said.
Asked why he only disclosed the bribe try during the presidential campaign, Gordon said he really had no intention of revealing it since he had promised that he would not tell.
However, Gordon said it “just came off the cuff” during the radio interview Tuesday morning since he is fed up with Villar camp’s propensity to use his money to get what he wants, including the presidency.
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Noynoy Leads on the Mock Election in Europe
by admin, on Mon, Feb 22 2010 | No CommentsSen. Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III is the top choice of Filipinos in Europe for the presidential seat. Following closely is the Sen. Manny Villlar. On the mock election conducted on several countries in Europe with 500 respondents, Aquino garnered the highest with 39% followed by Villar with % and former president Joseph Estrada was 3rd with 20%.
Europe has a total of 61,294 registered absentee voters. Italy has the most number of registered absentee voters with 23,435 and far second is the United Kingdom with only 8,552.
For the vice-presidential race, Sen. Manuel “Mar” Roxas II was way ahead at 39% followed by Sen. Loren Legarda with 24%.
However, in a separate mock elections initiated by the Philippine Association of Royal Mail Employees in United Kingdom, Manny Villar was on the lead with 81 votes or 34% and Aquino placed 2nd with 73 votes or 32%.
More than 200 members of the group took part in the mock polls in the UK.
In an outreach program conducted by the Philippine Embassy in Wales, ABS-CBN’s Balitang Europe conducted random interviews with Filipino workers on their choice for president.
The interviewed Filipino workers said they chose Aquino because he is credible and has no taint of corruption.
Some picked Sen. Richard “Dick” Gordon because of his proven track record while some prefer Bro. Eddie Villanueva claiming the country needs spiritual leadership.
Absentee voters in Europe may be small in number, but they pull serious influence on their relatives back home.
Noynoy Aquino reclaims lead over Manny Villar in new TNS survey
by admin, on Fri, Feb 19 2010 | No Comments
In the recent TNS (Taylor Nelson Sofres) Survey conducted January 28 to February 3 with 3,000 respondents’ shows that Sen. Benigno ‘Noynoy’ Aquino III has regained the lead over Sen. Manuel Villar with about 11% margin. Aquino was chosen by 41.54% of 3,000 respondents while Villar was picked by 30.63%.
In the Pulse Asia survey conducted from January 22 -26, Noynoy and Villar were statistically tied with Noynoy leading with 37% and the Villar getting 35%.
Third in the Jan. 28-Feb. 3 TNS survey was former President Joseph Ejercito Estrada of the Pwersa ng Masang Pilipino (PMP) with 11.66%, statistically the same as in the last Pulse Asia survey where he got 12%.
Administration candidate Gilbert Teodoro of the Lakas-Kampi-CMD was fourth with 5.21%, the same as in the last Pulse Asia survey.
Bro. Eddie Villaneuva got 2%, Senator Richard Gordon got 1.7%, Senator Jamby Madrigal got 0.22%, also statistically the same as what they received in the January 22 to 26 Pulse Asia survey.
Nacionalist Party said the TNS survey was commissioned by the Liberal Party.
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Convenors of Kontra Daya 2010: GMA may cheat for Villar, not Gibo
by admin, on Wed, Feb 17 2010 | No Comments
According to Convenors of Kontra Daya 2010, based on the her record, outgoing President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo is expected to cheat in the May 10 elections. Priest, nuns and members of poll watchdog warned the public to exercise greater vigilance in ensuring clean and honest elections.
The Convenors of Kontra Daya 2010, composed of the clergy, teachers, information technology (IT) professionals, students and activists, said “signs” point to massive cheating or failure of elections.
The former Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) President retired Archbishop Oscar Cruz said “We have seen it in 2004 and in 2007. The Arroyo government has every motive to rig the elections so it can stay in power. The single biggest fear now is the possibility of a failure of elections which will surely benefit the administration,”
Sr. Mary John Mananzan, head of the militant Association of Major Religious Superiors in the Philippines, said Mrs. Arroyo cannot possibly cheat for administration bet former Defense Secretary Gilbert “Gibo” Teodoro Jr. since he is among the cellar dwellers in the presidential surveys.
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