{"id":63255,"date":"2015-10-20T03:18:36","date_gmt":"2015-10-20T08:18:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=63255"},"modified":"2015-10-20T03:18:36","modified_gmt":"2015-10-20T08:18:36","slug":"senatorial-slates-of-major-political-parties-are-incomplete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/10\/20\/senatorial-slates-of-major-political-parties-are-incomplete\/","title":{"rendered":"Senatorial slates of major political parties are incomplete"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">MANILA, PHILIPPINES &#8211; Despite of the large number of possible candidates in 2016 elections listed in the Commission of Elections (Comelec), many of major parties was not able to field a complete senatorial slate in the upcoming elections.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">On a file provided by Comelec, not a single political party has filed in forming a 12-member senatorial line up. There are only eight candidates registered for the Liberal Party (LP), and six for the United Nationalist Alliance (UNA).<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The Partido ng Manggagawa at Magsasaka of party-list Rep. Roy Se\u00f1eres, who is also running for presidential post, is also fielding six senatorial bets.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Nine senatorial bets for Partido Bagong Maharlika as their political party.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Manila Mayor Joseph Estrada\u2019s Pwersa ng Masang Pilipino has only two senatorial bets.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Other parties who fields senatorial candidates are Nacionalista Party, Bagumbayan, PDP-Laban, People\u2019s Reform Party, Nationalist People\u2019s Coalition, Lakas-CMD, Akbayan, and Makabayan.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The Comelec has a record of 172 candidates who filed their certificates of candidacy (COC) for senatorial slate aside from 130 presidential bets and 19 vice-presidential bets.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Over a hundred candidates registered as independent, but some opted to express their supports certain presidential candidates.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Before releasing the official candidates for May 2016 elections on December 10, the Comelec will first evaluate all the COCs.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA, PHILIPPINES &#8211; Despite of the large number of possible candidates in 2016 elections listed in the Commission of Elections &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":63253,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[249],"class_list":["post-63255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","tag-rewrite","mauthors-mavelle-durian","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63255\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}