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Palparan guilty of murder in privilege speech

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Philippine Daily Inquirer

MANILA, Philippines—Call it a case of “murder through privilege speech.”  read more »

Leftist solon questions visit of U.S. soldiers in RP

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Journal Online

A LEFT leaning lady party-list lawmaker perceived to be running for a Senate seat in next year’s elections has questioned the visit of 6,000 American soldiers aboard the U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS George Washington that docked at the Manila Harbor recently.  read more »

Gabriela Hits Military Raid of Partylist Conference in Cagayan Valley

Gabriela Women’s Party Secretary General Cristina Palabay today strongly denounced the raid of a conference of progressive partylists in Cagayan allegedly by elements of the 17th IBPA and 5th ID of the Armed Forces of the Philippines last June 10, 2009 as “renewed spate of attacks and harassment of partylist groups critical of the administration.”  read more »

Left eyes 3 Senate seats

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Philippine Daily Inquirer

Next year, Casiño said the Makabayang Koalisyon ng Mamamayan (Makabayan) would be ready to join the Senate race again.He said it would most likely field Bayan Muna Rep. Satur Ocampo, Gabriela Women’s Party Rep. Liza Maza and himself as their senatorial candidates. Makabayan also includes the labor party-list group Anakpawis and the youth group Kabataan.  read more »

Progressive Groups File Petition for Quo Warranto Vs Palparan

“The butcher of the victims of extrajudicial killings and enforced disappearances could never represent the marginalized and underrepresented. Living true to his monicker, Gen. Palparan is butchering the essence of partylist system by his entry in the House of Representatives.”  read more »

Militants got Palparan proclaimed unwittingly

Source: 
Philstar.com

Women’s group Gabriela Rep. Liza Maza said they are now gearing up for Palparan’s disqualification.  read more »

Central Luzon militants cry: Jail Palparan

Source: 
GMANews.TV

Opposition lawmakers also vowed to file a disqualification case against Palparan.  read more »

Palparan willing to reach out to leftist solons

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abs-cbnnews.com

'Golden' representative

With regard the sister of the First Gentleman, the leftist solons questioned the nomination of Ma. Lourdes Arroyo as the representative of Ang Kasangga, supposedly a group of small entrepreneurs.  read more »

“She is like the goose that lays the golden egg,” said Gabriela Rep. Liza Maza, referring to the Arroyo's wealthy background.

Comelec Proclaims New Party-list Groups

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Philippine Star

Rep. Liza Maza of women’s group Gabriela, said Comelec’s proclamation of Arroyo and Palparan “shows the shameless bastardizing of the party-list system by Malacañang.”  read more »

Nograles vows to defend new lawmakers from critics

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GMAnews.tv

MANILA, Philippines - Speaker Prospero Nograles on Saturday said he is ready to protect and defend the rights of all members of the House of Representatives including controversial in-coming party-list Reps Jovito Palparan (Bantay) and Ma Lourdes “Lulu" Arroyo (Kasangga).  read more »

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