The 2010 Philippine Presidentiable

Noy-Noy Aquino Music video was song by Regine Velasquez and all the stars are on this video to support Noy-Noy for its Candidacy. < ..... Read more

villar’s ads were not on poverty directly. he was on the ofw campaign when he started airing ads. the ofw positioning only indirectly touches on poverty and in these ads, the positioning was on his generosity at helping ofws. it was really more on establishing the charactr of being helpful and generous and much less on solving anything. from the ofw campaign, it shifted to introducing the villar persona and his history. these were the ads where he told viewers his roots in tondo, that he himself was poor. the idea is to paint a personality profile of villar to the voters, sort of like distributing his resume to the voters. in advertising terms, this was to establish villar’s brand image in more concrete terms. during this time he also ran ads that talked to the youth.  while the target in those ads clearly shifted to young voters, it continued to be on the idea of building the villar brand image. in these ads he was saying that villar is someone different from what people may have..... Read more

The Commission on Elections (Comelec) has approved only eight presidential candidates out of the 99 aspirants who have filed their certificates of candidacies (COCs) for the position, a radio report said today. Those who were allowed to run in the national elections were Sen. Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III (Liberal Party), Olongapo City councilor JC de los Reyes (Ang Kapatiran), former President Joseph Estrada (UNO-PMP), Sen. Richard Gordon (Bagumbayan), Sen. Jamby Madrigal (independent), former Defense Secretary Gilbert Teodoro (Lakas-Kampi-CMD), Bro. Eddie Villanueva (Bangon Pilipinas) and Sen. Manny Villar (Nacionalista Party). Meanwhile, the Comelec likewise trimmed down the vice presidential aspirants to eight. They include Sen. Mar Roxas (Liberal Party), Makati Mayor Jejomar Binay (UNO-PMP), former Metropolitan Manila Development Authority chairman Bayani Fernando (Bagumbayan), Sen. Loren Legarda (Nacionalista Party), Edu Manzano (Lakas-Kampi-CMD), broadcaster Jay Sonz..... Read more

MANILA, Philippines – Nacionalista Party (NP) standard-bearer Sen. Manuel Villar Jr. and his running-mate Loren Legarda yesterday filed their certificates of candidacy (COCs) for president and vice-president, respectively, with the Commission on Elections (Comelec). Villar and Legarda were accompanied by some NP “senatoriables” led by Sen. Pia Cayetano, Ilocos Norte Rep. Ferdinand Marcos Jr., Adel Tamano, Susan Ople, Gwendolyn Pimentel and Ramon Mitra. The NP team heard Mass at 8:30 a.m. officiated by Parañaque Bishop Jessie Mercado at the nearby Manila Cathedral, where supporters, close relatives and friends clad in Villar’s signature orange and Legarda’s white joined the candidates. Villar’s wife, Las Piñas Rep. Cynthia Villar, and three children –Paolo, Mark and Camille – were also at the church. “This is the beginning of our desire to uplift our countrymen from poverty,” Villar said in Filipino. The Comelec received Villar’s COC at 9:53 a.m. Villar and ..... Read more

The nationwide survey, conducted from October 22 to 30, was undertaken solely by Pulse Asia on the “Filipinos’ Presidential Preference for the May 2010 Elections.” Forty-four percent of the respondents said they would elect Aquino as the next President if the May 2010 elections were held now. Following Aquino were Senator Manuel Villar of the Nacionalista Party (NP) with 19 percent, Senator Francis G. Escudero with 13 percent, and former President Joseph Estrada with 11 percent. The other presidential hopeful included in the survey registered at most 4 percent, including Vice President Noli De Castro who got 4 percent and Defense Secretary Gilbert Teodoro, standard-bearer of the administration party Lakas-Kampi-CMD, who got 2 percent. Less than one in ten Filipinos (4 percent) does not have a favored presidential candidate at the moment, according to the survey. Last month, Escudero resigned from the Nationalist People’s Coalition (NPC), but did not say if he is no longer seeki..... Read more