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In August 2023, Flores stated that both he and the FMLN would be committed to fighting corruption. [21] In the election, Flores finished in second place with 204,167 votes—6.40 percent; Bukele won re-election with 84.65 percent of the vote. [22] Flores refused to concede the election, claiming that "they stole votes from me" ("me han robado ...
Eventually, the Chiong sisters' parents thanked to the President when the news of Duterte announcing that surrender of the released convicts for good conduct. [27] The parents are also called for the investigation of Faeldon for his actions, [ 27 ] in which Faeldon would be fired from his post by President Duterte.
Researchers have proposed that corruption and poor governance as among the causes of poverty in the Philippines. [5] The Philippines signed the United Nations Convention against Corruption on December 9, 2003, with the Senate ratifying the convention on November 6, 2006. In 2012, the Senate declared that National Anticorruption Day shall be ...
Date Branch Department Party People Involved Summary Source 1946 Executive: Office of the President: Liberal: Manuel Roxas: Surplus War Property scandal- disposed $90 billion of surplus war property held by the United States government in the final year of World War II, which caused a huge corruption scandal that led to the rise of the leftist HUKBALAHAP and for Roxas's approval ratings to ...
The FMLN has controlled the mayor's offices in many of the large cities of El Salvador since 1997, including the capital, San Salvador, and the neighboring city Santa Tecla. The FMLN mayor of San Salvador, was Violeta Menjívar, the first female mayor of San Salvador, who was elected in a narrow victory in 2006. The death of the FMLN's long ...
The Coco Levy Fund Scam was a controversy in the 1970s and 1980s in the Philippines involving former President Ferdinand Marcos and his cronies.It was alleged that Marcos, Danding Cojuangco, Juan Ponce Enrile, and others conspired to tax coconut farmers, promising them the development of the coconut industry and a share of the investments, but on the contrary used the collection fund for ...
It was replaced by News Night with Pia Hontiveros effective March 27. [4] The network's move to retire the newscast was also partly due to viewers' complaints of retaining the Network News name despite rebranding three times. On March 26, 2017, CNN Philippines Network News Weekend officially ended the near 5-year run of Network News. [5]
Geoffrey Siao, radio commentator and writer of the Philippine Post in Iligan, was murdered on March 2, 1984. [ 12 ] [ 44 ] Florante "Boy" de Castro , lawyer and news commentator worked at DXCP , who had reported suspicious local government activities in South Cotabato , was gunned down on March 9, 1984, inside his house in General Santos .