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Who are worthy to serve in the 19th Congress? Find out their plan of action.

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@agnesbailen @drcarlbalita @Cabonegro4Sen What is your stand on the government's proposed ₱500 monthly subsidy?

Agnes Bailen: I believe the subsidy is too small, considering that there is already a two-year pandemic effect that our transport sector has been experiencing.

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@agnesbailen @drcarlbalita @Cabonegro4Sen Bailen: I believe the ₱500 (subsidy) is still insufficient... I believe there is a need to suspend (the fuel excise tax) first and then see if there is a price drop to see if the ₱500 is sufficient. #CNNPHSenatorialForum #TheFilipinoVotes

@agnesbailen @drcarlbalita @Cabonegro4Sen Bailen: I recommend we suspend it (the fuel excise tax) first for the first three months, I guess.

@agnesbailen @drcarlbalita @Cabonegro4Sen What is your stand on the government's proposed ₱500 monthly subsidy?

Carl Balita: The ₱500 will probably help a family for a day or two, but there is more to it than just ₱500 #CNNPHSenatorialForum #TheFilipinoVotes

@agnesbailen @drcarlbalita @Cabonegro4Sen Balita: We have to suspend the excise tax, because it will have a direct impact on the price, it's like a ₱5 to ₱10 reduction.

@agnesbailen @drcarlbalita @Cabonegro4Sen Balita: It may help somehow, but it's just a band aid solution to what really is uncontrollably increasing prices of our fuel

@agnesbailen @drcarlbalita @Cabonegro4Sen Balita: We have to understand the transport sector asked for a one peso increase in the fare. I think the families are doing their best to save but there is more than they need than this ₱500.

@agnesbailen @drcarlbalita @Cabonegro4Sen What is your stand on the government's proposed ₱500 monthly subsidy?

Roy Cabonegro: Kulang po yung ₱500, pero makakatulong kaya kunin natin yan. At atin din pong isuspinde ang excise tax sa oil products. (1/2) #CNNPHSenatorialForum #TheFilipinoVotes

@agnesbailen @drcarlbalita @Cabonegro4Sen Cabonegro: At kung meron pong petisyon para itaas ang pasahe, pagbigyan natin kasi naghihirap yung tsuper ng jeepney at bus (2/2)

@agnesbailen @drcarlbalita @Cabonegro4Sen Cabonegro: Talagang nakakainsulto yung ₱200. Yung ₱500 wag tanggihan kasi makakatulong pero kulang.

@agnesbailen @drcarlbalita @Cabonegro4Sen Cabonegro: Sa tingin namin, panahon na para i-review natin ang oil deregulation policy natin. Kailangan natin maghanap ng mas malalim na solusyon sa problemang ito.

@agnesbailen @drcarlbalita @Cabonegro4Sen Which comes first: workers' health or economic recovery?

Cabonegro: Ako po ay makakalikasan at nung tayo ay tumigil sa kakagalaw, gumanda ang kalikasan. Sa tingin ko maraming trabaho na gawin sa bahay lamang dahil nakakatulong sa kalikasan #CNNPHSenatorialForum #TheFilipinoVotes

@agnesbailen @drcarlbalita @Cabonegro4Sen Cabonegro: Wag nating madaliin yung mga manggagawa dahil lahat tayo ay na-trauma. Lahat tayo ay kailangan ng panahon mag-adjust.

@agnesbailen @drcarlbalita @Cabonegro4Sen Cabonegro: Kung ang tanong kung yun bang kikitain lang o yung kapakanan ng manggagawa, pareho naman yan kung magpaparaya ang mga kapitalista.

@agnesbailen @drcarlbalita @Cabonegro4Sen Which comes first: workers' health or economic recovery?

Bailen: Para sa akin ang importante ang health ng workers. Sa aking plataporma sinabi ko na kailangan malulusog na mamamayan, para sa malusog na ekonomiya #CNNPHSenatorialForum #TheFilipinoVotes

@agnesbailen @drcarlbalita @Cabonegro4Sen Bailen: Ang pinakaimportante nating resource ay human resource, kaya dapat pakinggan natin sila. Hindi yung nasa board room lang kayo nagde-decide

@agnesbailen @drcarlbalita @Cabonegro4Sen Bailen: Ang ating mga workers ay talagang hirap na hirap na po. Dapat pakinggan natin sila. Maganda po bago kayo mag-decide, maghintay kayo ng jeepney, ng bus para malaman ninyo ano ang pinapagawa ninyo sa workers.

@agnesbailen @drcarlbalita @Cabonegro4Sen Which comes first: workers' health or economic recovery?

Balita: I'll go for health. Atsaka hindi dapat itapon yung gains of the work-from-home set up during the pandemic #CNNPHSenatorialForum #TheFilipinoVotes

@agnesbailen @drcarlbalita @Cabonegro4Sen Balita: When you speak of health, you're not only talking of COVID here. We're talking about a big issue of mental health here. Any abrupt change, major psychosocial shift, will entail issues of mental health

@agnesbailen @drcarlbalita @Cabonegro4Sen Balita: We can do it slowly and surely, graduated, and find the value that we have achieved in work from home. It can lead us to some savings and environmental considerations. Let's take it slowly and let's base it on science

@agnesbailen @drcarlbalita @Cabonegro4Sen LOOK: Senatorial bets Agnes Bailen, Carl Balita and Roy Cabonegro vote no to imposing higher taxes to pay for the country's foreign debts #CNNPHSenatorialForum #TheFilipinoVotes

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@agnesbailen @drcarlbalita @Cabonegro4Sen Is 100% foreign ownership of PH sectors a friend or a foe?

Balita: I think it's a friend for now. Let's give it a chance. Ang mahalaga dito, papasok ang investments, and through those, we'll be able to have good competition. #CNNPHSenatorialForum #TheFilipinoVotes

@agnesbailen @drcarlbalita @Cabonegro4Sen Balita: Maganda rin yung provision na yung DOST will look into the technology that they will bring in and that will expand our capacity

@agnesbailen @drcarlbalita @Cabonegro4Sen Is 100% foreign ownership of PH sectors a friend or a foe?

Cabonegro: Inayawan pa namin ito noong bill pa ito, ayaw namin ito na ngayong siya'y batas na, at aayawan namin ito hangga't ito'y mapalitan uli. #CNNPHSenatorialForum #TheFilipinoVotes

@agnesbailen @drcarlbalita @Cabonegro4Sen Cabonegro: Napakadelikado ito dahil nasa tatlong matitinding krisis tayo. Krisis ng pandemya, ekonomiya, at kalikasan. Dapat mas may kontrol ang ating estado sa mga resources at services na kailangan natin.

@agnesbailen @drcarlbalita @Cabonegro4Sen Cabonegro: Tandaan natin na ang foreign direct investment nung 2021 ay ₱9 billion lamang. Meron tayong ibang sources na mas malalaki—ang OFW remittance ay ₱28 billion, ang kita sa BPO workers ay ₱22 billion.

@agnesbailen @drcarlbalita @Cabonegro4Sen Cabonegro: Bakit kailangan umasa sa foreign direct investment? Sa tingin namin mali ito at aayawan namin ito hanggang bumalik sa dati.

Is 100% foreign ownership of PH sectors a friend or a foe?

Bailen: Bigyan natin ng chance ito kasi may 6 months pa naman gagawin ang IRR. By the time siguro, makakapasok na tayo sa Senado at pwede pakialaman ang IRR. #CNNPHSenatorialForum #TheFilipinoVotes

Bailen: Ano ba ang public utility? Kailangang i-differentiate ang public utility sa public service. Pati mga critical infrastructure.

Bailen: Bigyan natin ng pag-asa kasi matagal na na ang ating ekonomiya ay kino-control lang po ng iilang pamilya. Telecommunication, tubig, isang pamilya lang po ang nag-aari. Kailangan siguro dagdagan ng isda ang maliliit na pond na ito para ma-regulate sila.

Do you favor resuming talks with communist rebels?

Bailen: Yes, because it's a new administration. If it's a new administration, there is goodwill; may trust because bago yung makikipag-usap. #CNNPHSenatorialForum #TheFilipinoVotes

Do you favor resuming talks with communist rebels?

Balita: Peace is a prerequisite to development, pero kailangan maintindihan natin kung bakit sila andoon. Yun siguro ang importante. #CNNPHSenatorialForum #TheFilipinoVotes

Balita: Sino ba namang ama ang gustong umakyat sa bundok? Ang tanong dito, yun bang nila-label na terrorist, are we talking about these people na ang ninanais rin ay kapayapaan, pag-uunlad na gaya natin?

Balita: There is an important word we have to understand: tolerance. We can differ in our perspectives, but we can seek to understand, then to be understood... I'm sure they also love peace like we do.

Do you favor resuming talks with communist rebels?

Cabonegro: All out peace, never na all out war. Sa tingin namin, kailangan ipagpatuloy yung pag-uusap sa kapayapaan at tugunan yung root cause nito...para mawala ang problema natin #CNNPHSenatorialForum #TheFilipinoVotes

Cabonegro: Tandaan natin may mga ilang komunidad na naiipit sa mga gyerang ito. Siguro as a prerequisite sa kasunod na peace negotiation, magkaisa ang gobyerno at lahat ng rebelde, alisin ang armed group sa ancestral domain

Cabonegro: Kung maaari i-audit ang NTF-ELCAC, ang kanilang ₱10 billion. At tandaan natin ang iba-ibang ideolohiya ay hindi problema sa demokrasya

LOOK: Senatorial candidates are split on whether they would want to ditch face masks #CNNPHSenatorialForum #TheFilipinoVotes

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Will you push for Cha-Cha to give way to a federal form of govt?

Cabonegro: Ang pinakamalawak na dapat nakokonsulta ay ang lipunan. Ang Con-con ay isang paraan para gawin ito, pero dapat i-compliment ito ng maraming konsultasyon at mahabang pag-uusap #CNNPHSenatorialForum

Cabonegro says he is in favor of a constitutional convention in amending the form of govt: Dapat maraming public consultations para talagang maunawaan ng tao kung ano ang ibig sabihin, at nakataya dito sa Charter Change na kailangan para ayusin ang itsura ng ating gobyerno.

Q: Will you push for Cha-Cha to give way to a federal form of govt?

Bailen also picks constitutional convention (Con-Con): At least naka-focus talaga ang mga ie-elect dito on a particular issue, which is federalism #CNNPHSenatorialForum #TheFilipinoVotes

Bailen: Let Con-con do the federalism matter and then let the legislators elected on May 9 handle the most pressing issues.

Will you push for Cha-Cha to give way to a federal form of govt?

Balita: Con-con will be more inclusive to understand really kung ano ang gusto ng mga tao. #CNNPHSenatorialForum #TheFilipinoVotes

Balita: Ang maganda sa federalism is the shared rule and self-rule. I don't think yung Cha-Cha will be a good way to cook it. We have to look into our history

Balita: Importante dito ang benchmarking. Maraming tagumpay na istorya na ng federalism sa mundo. Pero hindi tayo kokopya dito, dahil ang pederalismo ay ididikta ito hindi lang ng history kung hindi ang ating pangangailangan.

Which reforms should be pushed so students can catch up in Math and Science?

Balita: You cannot improve what you cannot measure. Ang una nating gagawin ay massive assessment ng aptitude, capacity, at competencies ng ating students #CNNPHSenatorialForum #TheFilipinoVotes

Balita: Ang tintutulak ko ay isang education commission, gaya nung 1990 na kung saan maraming nabago....Marami tayong dapat gawing educational reforms in the post-pandemic times.

Balita: Let's take care of our teachers because kahit pa anong pag-usapan nating reform, kung masyadong mababa ang sweldo ng teachers at masyado sila maraming ginagawa, wala tayong pinag-uusapang edukasyon.

Which reforms should be pushed so students can catch up in Math and Science?

Cabonegro: Mahalaga ang aptitude pero sa akin mas mahalaga ang aplikasyon. Ang ating problema sa klima ay isang napakagandang oportunidad para ang pag-aaral ay mas maging praktikal #CNNPHSenatorialForum

Cabonegro: Allow them to go to the communities, understand the problem, document it, find an innovative solution, and act on it. Doon natin bilangin ang effectiveness ng ating education system. #TheFilipinoVotes

Cabonegro: Naniniwala ako pag maraming nag-iisip ng solusyon sa ating kinakaharap na problema, dito lalabas ang pinakamagaling.

Cabonegro: Bawasan natin yung admin work nila (teacher). Puro na lang mga paper works. Teacher sila, 'wag natin kalimutan

Which reforms should be pushed so students can catch up in Math and Science?

Bailen: Ang mga teacher, ang magtrabaho ay magturo. Huwag nating gawing clerical. #CNNPHSenatorialForum #TheFilipinoVotes

Bailen on funding for the Universal Access to Quality Tertiary Education Act: Dapat gawan ng paraan. Kung walang pera, bakit nakapasa 'to? So mangutang, para ma-implement talaga kung ano ang gusto ng batas.

LOOK: All three senatorial bets agree that social media platforms should be punished for helping the spread of fake news. #CNNPHSenatorialForum #TheFilipinoVotes

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Bailen asks Cabonegro: How can PH urge Malaysia to pay their rent for Sabah to the Sultanate of Sulu?

Cabonegro: I think ang ayaw ng Malaysia na ang usapin na ma-recognize na ang bahagi na yun ay hindi na Malaysia. (1/2)

Cabonegro: Habang hindi pa handa ang dalawang parties, yung pagkilala sa renta ay papaboran ng Malaysia yan. (2/2)

Cabonegro: Palagay ko maiintindihan ng ating kapatid sa Sultanate sa Sulu na ito ay hindi madaling proseso

Cabonegro: Ang mahalaga ay maunawaan natin kung saan nanggagaling ang Malaysia, at tulungan natin ang ating mga kapatid na nasa Sultanate ng Sulu na i-assert ang kanilang karapatan.

Cabonegro asks Balita: Paano tayo maghahanda sa susunod na mga zoonotic diseases?

Balita: This is where we can take care of the environment. Make sure that we're part of the ecosystem. We have to see that humanity is part of the ecosystem.

Balita: Sa tingin ko, education is still the key there... Sisimulan natin yan sa ating tahanan, and we really have to awaken the environmentalist in all of us.

Balita: I would like to believe that every Filipino has seen a beautiful tree and flower and will envision a beautiful Philippines.

Balita: Ang isa sa major economic driver ay tourism at hindi mahirap na kumbinsihin na ang pag-alaga sa kalikasan ay hindi lang para sa pag-iwas sa sakit, kung 'di para meron tayong pagkukunan ng pagkain at economic activities

Balita asks Bailen: Do you see an end to political dynasties in our lifetime?

Bailen: I've always been an optimist. At ngayong tumatakbo tayo, hindi tayo part ng political dynasty....So I think we're really moving.

Bailen on political dynasties: Probably by God's grace, we can do something about this

Bailen: I urge those in political dynasties to see the world, don't just confine yourself in Philippine politics.

Bailen: Wala tayong pera, makinarya. But andito tayo kasi we believe ito na ang panahon na sinasabi ni Jose Rizal, na ang kabataan ang magdadala sa atin sa magandang kinabukasan. I-e-end natin ang political dynasties.

Cabonegro on his priority legislation cites a 'green commune': Dahil meron tayong nandiyan na at lalala na problema sa kalikasan, ang climate change. Papatayin lahat tayo nito. Ang planeta, hindi tayo kailangan. Pero tayo ay kailangan natin ng kalikasan. #CNNPHSenatorialForum

Cabonegro: Ang green commune ay isang paraan upang matugunan ang climate displacement. Ito ay isang paraan upang makapagsimula uli. Hindi lang ito lipatan, kung hindi bagong komunidad na makakalikasan. #TheFilipinoVotes

Cabonegro says his 'green commune' proposal will be funded by 'green' investors, OFW and BPO remittances, and wealth tax among other sources.

Bailen on her priority legislation: Government reorganization. Ang nangyari sa atin ay talagang bumagsak ang ating ekonomiya. Importante na yung ating government structure will be able to respond immediately to the needs of the people. #CNNPHSenatorialForum #TheFilipinoVotes

Bailen: Bumaba ang trust ng mga tao sa gobyerno. Kailangan i-restore ang trust and confidence...kaya kailangan i-reorganize ang government.

Balita bats for an Omnibus Positive Practice Environment Act for health workers as his priority legislation: Hindi lang dapat titingin ito sa sweldo. Kailangan maibigay ang kanilang security of tenure, career progression, at iba pang pangangailangan. #CNNPHSenatorialForum

Balita pushes for infusion of agriculture in PH educational system: Ang STEM ay dapat maging STEAM para yung agriculture ay masamahan ng science, technology, and engineering. #TheFilipinoVotes

Balita on livelihood: Gusto ko po ng microenterprise commission kung saan bibigyan natin ng one-stop shop na tulong ang maliliit na negosyo, dahil sila naman talaga ang economic frontliners

Balita: Kailangang palakasin ang techvoc sa K-12 system. Isulong ang dual education and training para pagyamanin ang early childhood development. One-third of our children are malnourished. Wala tayong aasahang learning kung malnourished ang bata.