January 2010
Top "vote-rich" provinces in the country
Top Provinces in terms of votes
Cebu 2,416,368
Pangasinan 1,662,094
Cavite 1,654,989
Negros Occidental 1,550,850
Bulacan 1,479,765
Davao del Sur 1,465,611
Laguna 1,440,660
Nueva Ecija 1,289,804
Iloilo 1,257,661
Rizal 1,256,194
Batangas 1,226,698
Pampanga 1,114,484
Quezon ...
Our country's Regions in terms of votes
Top Regions in terms of votes
IV 8,064,104
NCR 5,826,602
III 5,552,363
VI 3,921,946
VII 3,921,946
V 2,857,880
I 2,800,700
XI 2,555,790
VIII 2,414,266
X 2,391,946
XII 1,987,427
IX 1,856,932
II 1,823,600
ARMM 1,819,767
...
Electoral Numbers for 2010
On Election Day, we will vote in:
80 Provinces 119 Cities 1,515 Municipalities 42,025 Barangays 329,389 Voting Precincts 75,471 Clustered Precincts 37,226 Voting Centers
Total Registered Voters: 50,086,054 (as of Dec 14, 2009) Luzon: 27,823,880 Visayas: 10,272,776
Mindanao: 11,989,398
“Now let me tell you one more story that Juan Ponce Enrile could not contain to...”
– Lito Banayo, Indecent Proposals, January 28, 2010.
Randy David on the socio-political landscape in...
Financial Executives Institute of the Philippines (FINEX)
Economic Briefing, January 20, 2010
Hotel Intercontinental Manila
The socio-political landscape in 2010: The unending quest for political stability
Randolf S. David
Professor, University of the Philippines
Perhaps it is because we are a relatively young nation-state, it has always seemed that we are more burdened by politics than...
Benigno Aquino III on the Maritime and Seafaring...
Benigno S. Aquino III’s opening remarks during the Philippines Maritime and Seafaring Industry Presidential Forum (each candidate was given five minutes for their opening remarks) January 28, 2010, Thursday, 2PM to 5PM Fiesta Pavilion, Manila Hotel, Bonifacio Drive, Manila
Before I begin, let me tell you about a conversation between my partner, Mar Roxas, and Bill Gates. When Mar met...
“Now that we are reaching the end of what seems destined to remain a nameless...”
– Anne Applebaum: Tea leaves for the ‘Teens’
“For sure, many US companies – whether Silicon Valley tech leaders or buyers of...”
– Philip Bowring, Google in China and Beyond, January 18, 2010
““Ang advice namin, through House minority leader (San Juan) Rep. Ronaldo...”
– Satur to Villar: Why not Face the Senate? January 25, 2010
PowerPoint of Charges and Evidence →
Presentation of charges and supporting evidence regarding Ethics Case versus Senator Manuel Villar, Jr.
“Days before the Chief Justice question flared up, my group of women in media had...”
– Domini M. Torrevillas, The Truth about Noynoy, January 19, 2010
Tambalang Failon at Sanchez: Interview with Sen....
“Whatever increase in social intelligence and moral goodwill may be achieved in...”
– Reinhold Niebuhr, Moral Man and Immoral Society: A Study in Ethics and Politics
Roxas and Cayetano on the findings of the Senate...
(Sen. Mar Roxas and Sen. Alan Peter Cayetano Januar 25, 2010) MAR: Sinasabi ni Sen. Alan Peter Cayetano, bakit natin tine-take up dito? Dahil may isang senadora dito na nagsampa ng kaso laban sa kanya. May ebidensiya. Tinake up ito sa ethics committee, nagreklamo kayo, ang sabi ninyo ang mga nakaupo dun ay mga miyembro ng iba’t-ibang partido, mapupulitika. Ano ginawa? Imbes na ini-stonewall o...
Question and Answer: Benigno Aquino III and Makati...
MBC Q and A transcript
Jan 21, 2010
Q: In governing you will need the cooperation of Congress, what’s your strategy for getting their cooperation particularly in a situation where you do not control either or both of the houses?
BSAIII: Well sir I think you will agree with me that the tradition for the past congresses has been that the dominant party becomes the party to which the President...
“Certain decades shape the country’s political life for generations by...”
– E.J. Dionne Jr.: Squandered decade
“Freedom is responsibility and the affluent as well as the slave hate it.”
– Teodoro M. Locsin, “Freedom of the editor.”
Cory Aquino's speech before the Rotary Clubs of...
Tearing Down the Dictatorship, Rebuilding Democracy Delivered before the joint Rotary Clubs of Metro Manila at the Manila Hotel, January 23, 1986 Last January 6, speaking before a joint meeting of various business and management associations I outlined my economic program. Ten days later, on January 16, I presented my social platform to a multisectoral audience in Davao. Today let me present to...
Benigno Aquino III on Hacienda Luisita and land...
From Inquirer.net podctast 2007:
DAR [Department of Agrarian Reform] is asking for another extension of at least five years. And I’m, worried…that land in the Philippines is supposed to be a finite element, but suddenly they have been saying that they have discovered—or recently discovered—more than should be subject to the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program, and this...
Benigno Aquino III on national sovereignty, human...
(Inquirer.net podcast interview, 2007)
Q : To you, which is more important: international commitment or national sovereignty? And security or human rights?
Benigno Aquino III : In national sovereignty, I answered that earlier but just to reiterate, there should not be a conflict between the two. In national interest, will dictate what international commitments we should undertake. You...
Benigno Aquino III on military reforms
From Inquirer.net 2007 interview:
Q. How will you solve the problem of restlessness in the military?
A.
There was a video I once saw of the Balikatan exercises, and I saw there [Filipino soldiers] zeroing their rifles, and they were being assisted by Americans who were spraying WDT40 on the front sights. What that tells me is the front sights— WDT40 is a lubricating oil—the front...
A Philippines That Works: Benigno S. Aquino III
A PHILIPPINES THAT WORKS:
ECONOMIC VISION AND PLATFORM
Senator Benigno S. Aquino III
January 21, 2010
Officers and members of the Makati Business Club, Management Association of the Philippines, Financial Executives Institute of the Philippines, Your Excellencies of the diplomatic corps, ladies and gentlemen, my friends and countrymen:
Thank you very much for giving me the opportunity to...
“The inhumanity of our system is evident; thus clearly it must be changed. ...”
– Scott Madin, Why I Am Not a Revolutionary
“One example was C&P Homes (C&P), a Philippine corporate property...”
– Rohan Douglas, Credit Derivative Strategies: New Thinking on Managing Risk and Return, ( Villar’s cited on page 30)
About the Author: Rohan Douglas, editor of this volume, is the founder and CEO of Quantifi Inc., a leading provider of pricing models and risk analysis tools for structured...
“Now that we are reaching the end of what seems destined to remain a nameless...”
– Anne Applebaum: Tea leaves for the ‘Teens’
“The true legacy of the Arroyo years may lie in the fabricated uncertainties that...”
– John Nery, The iconoclastic Gloria A, January 19, 2010
“Strange as it may seem, Lakas-Kampi considers Gibo’s candidacy viable. The party...”
– Manuel Buencamino, Death mask makeover, Business Mirror, January 13, 2010
What 6.4 Billion can buy
P 6.22 Billion can:
- build 10,366 fully furnished schoolrooms complete with restrooms (the Coca Cola schoolhouse model) or - 8,293 houses for 8,923 families (4-children families), putting a roof over the heads of 49,758 people. - provide funds to lend to 124,4000 SMEs, providing livelihood to 124,400 families. - P5 Billion could provide new books in all subjects for ALL students from Grade...
Benigno Aquino III on the country's three most...
From 2007 Inquirer.net interview:
Q. Sir, my first question would be what do you see as the country’s three most pressing problems? And what solutions can you propose?
A.
Well, as an economist, it has something to do with the economy, and the idea of so many people really being in a perpetual state of want. The idea that, you know, the stereotype is a family in Metro Manila or any other...
Benigno Aquino III on change through peaceful...
From Inquirernet 2007 interview
If you embark on a campaign to never really address any issues squarely, we will find ourselves getting in a worse and worse situation primarily because issues keep on piling up.
If you want to cover up something you will come up with the new crime to cover up the first, attempt to cover up the first and the second and so on and so forth. And if it’s a...
Benigno Aquino III on the people's aspirations
From Inquirer.net 2007 interview:
When I was first campaigning, there was somebody who said, a lady in fact, who said, regardless of whoever is elected, we are in the same condition. What does that mean? We were poor to begin with, we were poor while that person was in office. We’ll be lucky if we are not poorer after he leaves office.
And that to me was the perfect way of summarizing why...
Benigno Aquino III on labor and management
Inquirer.net interview 2007
‘Yung every time, parang it’s a seasonal thing that the conflict between management and labor happens with regards to ‘yung wage issues. Of course, managers could say, we can’t afford the cost. Labor will say, we can’t afford to live. And we have a replay of this tragedy year in year out.
And I’ve always wondered, why should that be...
Benigno Aquino III on an economist's approach to...
From Inquirer.net 2007 interview:
Like any other problem in this country it is a chicken-and-egg question. I’m an economist by training, so that tends to be my method of attack.
When you have very scarce resources, it is even more crucial to ensure that you get the most bang for each peso you spend. So when you get into projects like the North Rail, the PNCC [Philippine National...
“It’s wasted effort to steep the young in virtue and morality only to let...”
– Diosdado Macapagal, first State of the Nation Address, 1962 (quoted in Time Magazine)
Benigno Aquino III on his opposing GMA
(From 2007 Inquirer.net interview)
We’re not making it personal. So long as they embark on the same method of governance, on this form of government—what does that mean?
After we left in July of 2005, there were emissaries that were sent and asking for reconciliation. And what the minimum that we asked was, we have certain issues? Why don’t at least review whether or not our...
“There are three simple steps to winning every campaign: 1) Decide what you are...”
– - Joseph Napolitan
Excerpt from "Trust," by Lito Banayo
(Trust, by Lito Bayano, Malaya, January 14, 2010)
But something worse has happened in the almost ten years that Gloria’s misrule and excessive betrayal of the public trust has been suffered. The institutions of governance and democracy have been damaged, and it would take purposive, decisive, concerted and even revolutionary steps by the next leadership to repair these institutions back to...
"Velvet Revolution: The Prospects," by Timothy...
(from Velvet Revolution: The Prospects by Timothy Garton Ash in The New York Times Review of Books, Volume 56, Number 19 · December 3, 2009)
1789 in France, 1917 in Russia, 1949 in China—all were at some point professedly utopian; all promised a heaven on earth. [Velvet Rervolution or VR] is typically anti-utopian, or at the very least non-utopian. In a given place, it aspires to create political...
Benigno Aquino III on ICT and Science education
Inquirer.net 2007 interview:
When I was a grade school student, I really was fascinated with all of my science courses. Be it biology, geology, and we had a problem with physics. It was more of an interaction with my professor, or even chemistry for that matter, any of the sciences…What I’m trying to say: My teachers were able to inculcate and encourage us to really…it seems...
[from the archives] Aquino on his parents →
noypipol:
Excerpts from the Archives—
Inquirer interview, 2007:
Am I something special, exceptional or the exceptions to the rule? There should be a fight, given the fact that it’s in everybody’s interest. Everybody should be participative in this current crisis that our democracy is facing. So in terms of expectations…I have [said] long ago, I will not be able to surpass what my parents have...
Villar's leadership
Villar’s leadership Filomeno S. Sta. Ana III, Yellow Pad/Business World 11 January, 2010 Manny Villar is on a roll. The latest survey conducted by Social Weather Stations (SWS) shows that he has narrowed the gap between him and Noynoy Aquino, the frontrunner, to 11 percent. The survey came in the wake of a media blitzkrieg during the holiday season. A friend of mine, an executive in a major...