Professor Jean Encinas-Franco presents the cost of winning and maintaining public office in the Senate and the House of Representatives. Photo by Jonathan Madrid, UPS-MCO. Advertising makes up the bulk of election costs, with campaign collaterals and ground operations taking huge chunks of the budget as well. “Progressives” with very limited funds tend to focus […]
Just four days after the May 9, 2022 National and Local Elections, Tesk.ph released its report on how bogus vote tallies and supposed disqualification of some candidates proliferated online during election day. The Tsek.ph report said fake news proliferated “overwhelmingly on Facebook, and occasionally on Twitter and YouTube, mostly by Marcos supporters, including […]
On October 30, 2023, the Philippines held what is arguably the most impactful elections in the country: the 2023 Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan Elections (BSKE). The 2023 elections decided the leaders and council members for the smallest unit of government and the primary implementer of government policies at the grassroots level: the barangay. After the […]
The UP College of Medicine (then known as the Philippine Medical School) opens. It predates the opening of the University proper by 3 years.
