Claiming that the “Glorious Revolution” had deteriorated into partisanship over the years, President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo Thursday made her final appearance as the nation’s leader at ceremonies commemorating the 1986 People Power Revolution.

Sen. Manny Villar Jr. is the most trusted presidential candidate in the May 10 elections, according to the latest Pulse Asia survey.

Nearly seven in 10 Filipino adults continue to distrust President Arroyo despite her charm offensive, according to the latest survey released by Pulse Asia yesterday.

Quit now or face legal hassles later.

Commission on Elections Chair Jose Melo issued this advice a day after the Supreme Court declared that appointed officials running in the May 10 elections were deemed resigned when they filed their certificates of candidacy.

he security of nearly two million ballots for voters in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) may have been compromised after they were printed without the security markings of the National Printing Office (NPO), the Inquirer has learned.

An independent survey firm Sunday said the synchronized elections on May 10, 2010 will be a media-driven campaign with television, radio, and print advertisements emerging as the most preferred mediums of national candidates to put their political agenda across.

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has cautioned presidential candidate Richard Gordon, a senator and chair of the local Red Cross, not to compromise the nonpartisan nature of the organization as it prepares to respond to the possible explosion of election-related violence in the run-up to national polls.

President Arroyo has signed into law Republic Act 9994 or the Expanded Senior Citizens Act, ending weeks of speculation on whether or not she would act on this measure.

THE RECKONING began barely four months before Judgment Day.

The question is: Are we better off today than we were at the start of the new millennium under Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo? Was her stewardship the best of times, or was it the worst of times? Are we all going to heaven, or are we all going the other way?

Was it a case of conflicting schedules or a snub?

Explaining his absence at an Inquirer-sponsored debate of presidential candidates at the University of the Philippines in Diliman, Quezon City, deposed President Joseph “Erap” Estrada said he had to meet a delegation of political leaders from Mindanao Monday morning.

The wife of business tycoon Eduardo “Danding” Cojuangco Jr. said they are dismayed with their nephew, Lakas-Kampi-CMD standard bearer Gilberto "Gibo" Teodoro Jr..

Datu Unsay Mayor Andal Ampatuan Jr. has pleaded not guilty to the additional 15 murder cases filed against him for his alleged role in the massacre of 57 people in Maguindanao last November 23.