President Rodrigo Duterte’s repeated delays of his earlier decision to end the Philippines’s Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA) with the United States means the country’s independent foreign policy has yet to have a clear direction, a party-list lawmaker said.
Bayan Muna Party List Representative Carlos Zarate and his partymate former Congressman Teodoro Casino insist that they do not consider the Communist Party of the Philippines, New People’s Army and National Democratic Front (CPP/NPA/NDF) as “enemies” even though they do not agree with the way “they are pushing for their agenda.”
The House of Representatives approved on third and final reading House Bill 6953 or the “Bayanihan to Recover as One” pandemic response law, with 242 affirmative votes, six negative votes, and zero abstentions on Aug. 10, Monday.
Various groups have come forward to express their support for the renewal of the franchise renewal of broadcasting giant ABS-CBN.