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AFP Chief of Staff Gen. Jose Faustino Jr. on PH territorial defense: It’s now time for us to really look into what’s happening in our external territories. Right now, we have a lot of changes when it comes to the threats we are confronting with in the West PH Sea particularly.
AFP chief Faustino: That’s why we really have to address our external defense and with that we really have to go into modernization.
Labor leader Luke Espiritu, who is running under the senatorial slate of presidential aspirant Leody de Guzman, calls to end contractualization: Hindi nakakabuhay ang ₱537 a day, tapos tatanggalan mo pa ng security of tenure.
Environmentalist Roy Cabonegro, PLM's senatorial aspirant, says the Philippines must earmark more budget to fund climate action: Napakababa nang pag-allot ng budget para sa kalikasan. Bulag tayo sa polisiya kung magkano talaga ang kailangan.
@cathmodesto1 PNP chief Guillermo Eleazar says 9,461 people were caught violating protocols during the first day of implementation of Alert Level 2 in NCR
@cathmodesto1 Na-o-overwhelm ba ang mga police officers dahil sa dami ng dapat bantayan hindi lamang sa health protocols kung hindi sa kanilang siguridad lalo't magpapasko na?
PNP chief Eleazar: Inaasahan natin iyan. Kailangan lang natin ang kooperasyon ng mga lahat.
Petitioner Dr. Rommel Bautista: It is my understanding that somebody who aspires to be a public servant… needs to have a clean background and through the research it appears presidential aspirant Mr. Marcos… seems to be not exactly very forthcoming with all the voters.
Dr. Bautista: The COC contains a question, and that is simple. It basically asks the candidate, or the one filing the COC whether or not he was convicted of crime, and there are only two answers to that, either yes or no.
Philippine Movement for Climate Justice (PMCJ) national coordinator Ian Rivera lists frequent, stronger typhoons; severe flooding among the effects of the current climate crisis on ordinary Filipinos.
PMCJ says Yolanda victims are "still battling for survival" on the super typhoon's eighth anniversary.