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00:07The number of candidates for the Senate since 2019 is higher
00:12based on the data of the Comelec.
00:14153 were cast for the 2019 election
00:18and 176 for the 2022 election.
00:21For the 2025 election,
00:23184 are the total number of senatorial aspirants.
00:2857 of them filed for the COC
00:31at the current deadline,
00:32including Pastor Apolo Quibuloy.
00:35Sandra Aguinaldo is a witness.
00:37♪
00:40Pastor Apolo Quibuloy will run for senator
00:43even if he's in prison
00:44for child abuse and human trafficking cases.
00:47Under the Certificate of Candidacy
00:49issued by his lawyer,
00:51the Workers and Peasants Party, or WPP, is already a party.
00:55How will he campaign?
00:56For Senator?
00:57We will campaign for him.
00:59The people of the Philippines will campaign for him.
01:01Like other aspirants,
01:03he accepted the COC,
01:05but there's no guarantee that his name will be included in the ballot.
01:08Considering that the COC is already here,
01:10I will beg that we don't answer it first
01:12because if the question is raised to the Comelec,
01:16the Comelec has to decide about it.
01:18But on WPP,
01:19they will accept the run of Quibuloy
01:22under their party.
01:24According to the group's president,
01:26Atty. Sani Matula,
01:27none of the three authorized signatures
01:30in their group
01:31were approved by the CONA,
01:33or Certificate of Nomination and Acceptance of Quibuloy.
01:36The CONA is one of the requirements
01:38that the Comelec is granted
01:41along with the Certificate of Candidacy.
01:43According to Quibuloy's camp,
01:45the WPP approved the COC's approval
01:48under the party.
01:52According to the Comelec,
01:53there's a time for the commission to resolve this issue.
01:57The candidacy also allowed
01:59for Kiko Pangilinan to return to the Senate
02:02who was accompanied by his wife Sharon Coneta.
02:05He will run under the Liberal Party.
02:08Atty. Vic Rodriguez will also run as a senator.
02:11He was the campaign spokesperson
02:13and executive secretary
02:15of President Bongbong Marcos.
02:17But there was a riot in Gabinete in 2022
02:19just a few months after his appointment.
02:22In the midst of the controversy
02:23regarding sugar importation,
02:26COC and TV host Willie Revillame
02:28also agreed.
02:30The candidate for senator
02:33was also filed by the former Commission on Audit Commissioner
02:35Heidi Mendoza,
02:37party list representative Rodante Marcoleta,
02:41Peter Jovenel Advincula,
02:43Princess Jade Ramos,
02:45Jovelyn Aceron,
02:47Leandro Versales Jr.,
02:49Fernando Advincula,
02:50Joseph Delgado,
02:52Eric Alcantara,
02:53Rosalyn Corazol-Kay,
02:55Randy Red,
02:56Romulo San Ramon,
02:58Abel Adorable,
02:59Mercedita Acopiado,
03:01Randy Restum,
03:02Emilio Chan,
03:04Deviendo Biasol Sr.,
03:05Roy Cabonegro,
03:07Rodolfo Basilan,
03:09Primo Aquino,
03:10Sunny Domingo,
03:11Jem Dumagtoy,
03:12Roel Lamoste,
03:13who was sent by Representative
03:15Monique Solis Coquinaras,
03:17Ismael Bajo.
03:19The COC also filed a Senator,
03:21Omar Tomano,
03:22Salvador Cabalida,
03:24Eric Martinez,
03:25Francis Leo Marcos,
03:27Martin Mendoza III,
03:28Bertine Causing,
03:30Melchor Lucanas,
03:32Antonio Parr,
03:33Loreto Banosan,
03:35Robert Marcos Taliano Tagian,
03:37Faith Ugsad,
03:39Wilfredo Red,
03:40Edmund Urubi,
03:41Patrick Artajo,
03:43Rafael Chico,
03:44Romeo Macaraig,
03:45Shirley Quachin,
03:47Zubair Mustafa,
03:48Celeste Aguilar,
03:49Sunny Pimentel,
03:50Enrico Olonan,
03:52Ricardo Arguelles,
03:53and Willie Ricablanca.
03:55Melissa Sanchez and Roberto Sembrano
03:58also filed their Senator.
04:01Gabriel Chaklag,
04:03Alexander Lague,
04:05and Injim Bunayog also filed their Senator.
04:07The COC withdrew
04:09former Defense Secretary
04:10Delphine Lorenzana
04:11after she filed her Senator yesterday
04:13according to Comilec.
04:14Comilec will also blame
04:15those who hired the COC,
04:17like those who were laughed at
04:18by perpetual disqualification
04:20to hold public office.
04:22In December,
04:23the names to be put on the ballot
04:24will be announced.
04:2753 party lists
04:29were eaten by their
04:30Certificate of Nomination
04:32and Certificate of Acceptance
04:33of Nomination today.
04:35In total,
04:36190 party lists
04:38were eaten by the candidature
04:40for the election 2025.
04:42This number is
04:43bigger than the party lists
04:46that were eaten by the candidature
04:47for the election of 2019.
04:49But it's lower than the 270 party lists
04:53that were eaten by the last election
04:55of 2022.
04:56For GMA Integrated News,
04:58Sandra Aguinaldo is your witness.
05:02Six people were eaten by
05:03the Certificate of Candidacy
05:05for the election of Manila
05:06in the election of 2025.
05:08The incumbent Mayor
05:10Honey Lacuna,
05:11former Mayor Isko Morena,
05:13Congressman Sam Versoza,
05:15and three more.
05:17Witness, Oscar Oida.
05:22On the last day of the filing
05:23of the Certificate of Candidacy,
05:25former Mayor Isko Morena
05:27ran to the scene.
05:28He was able to confront
05:30incumbent and former Vice Mayor
05:33Honey Lacuna.
05:34I respectfully ask
05:38Ate Honey,
05:40can I go back
05:42to being a Mayor?
05:45And swiftly, she answered,
05:50no, I'm running for re-election.
05:53And, you know,
05:54I don't want that.
05:56She's sitting there.
05:57She's the one sitting there.
05:59She has the right to do that.
06:02So what I did is,
06:03kiss her,
06:05said goodbye,
06:07and hug Doc Pox.
06:10Because you know,
06:13I really love those people.
06:14Honestly.
06:16I love them because of Danny Lacuna.
06:20As a view of the debt.
06:22The last time we spoke to each other
06:24was I think July 12.
06:26That's when he said it?
06:27Yes.
06:28How did he say it?
06:30He said he will run.
06:34I didn't say anything.
06:36I just listened to him.
06:37That's face-to-face.
06:39He will run as Mayor of Manila,
06:41Tutok Tuwil Partylist Representative Sam Verzosa.
06:45Manilans have the right to choose
06:48who they want to run for.
06:49It's sad because they're all fighting.
06:52The COC also invited
06:55Alvin Avisilja Karingal,
06:57Michael Gosay,
06:59and Jerry Sindu Garcia as Mayors.
07:02In Davao City,
07:03the COC invited
07:05former Civil Service Commission Chair
07:07Carlo Nograles,
07:09former Cabinet Secretary
07:10and Acting Presidential Spokesman
07:12of former President Rodrigo Duterte.
07:15Nograles will fight as Mayor
07:18of the former President.
07:20Aside from the two,
07:21Nograles' brother,
07:24Margarita,
07:25and Duterte's son,
07:26Pulong Duterte,
07:28will also face each other
07:29in the first district of Davao City.
07:32Giannis vs. Giannis
07:34will face each other
07:35as Congressmen
07:37of the 3rd District of Negros Oriental.
07:39One of the Giannis
07:41is Pamplona Mayor Giannis Digamo,
07:43widow of the former
07:44Negros Oriental Governor-Royal Digamo.
07:47He will face Giannis Tevez-Gaston,
07:50the brother of Pride Henry
07:53and Arnolfo Tevez Jr.
07:55The two Giannis will fight
07:56for the position
07:58that was held by
07:59ex-Congressman Amit Tevez,
08:01who was involved in the killing
08:03of Digamo in 2023.
08:05Aside from the two Giannis,
08:07the Independent Aspirant
08:08is Reynaldo Lopez.
08:10For GMA Integrated News,
08:13I'm your host, Oscar Oida.
08:16Saksi!
08:17The forgotten
08:18and threatened
08:19by the Japanese in the Philippines
08:20during World War II
08:21will not be forgotten,
08:22especially those who experienced
08:24being a hostage.
08:25One of them,
08:26I will tell you about
08:27the people who helped him
08:28to be saved.
08:30Saksi!
08:31I'm JP Sorian.
08:34Here in Kalamazoo, Michigan,
08:36in America,
08:37I met a young man
08:39who was saved
08:40when the Japanese
08:41attacked the Philippines.
08:48Dean Hawk is now 85 years old,
08:51founder and owner
08:53of the Michigan News Agency.
08:55Yes, this has been marvelous.
08:58My mother, my sister, and I
09:01were living in Baguio
09:04until the Japanese
09:06first Pearl Harbor,
09:09and then the next day
09:10they took Clark Field,
09:11they took all the planes out
09:12from the Southeast Asian Air Force
09:15at Clark Field.
09:17And by the next month,
09:20the Philippines were invaded,
09:21of course.
09:22That is Bataan and Corregidor.
09:25They were brought to
09:26the University of Santo Tomas
09:27in Manila,
09:30which served as the biggest camp
09:32or internment camp
09:33for the Americans
09:35and the Filipino
09:37side of the Japanese.
09:39But they were soon
09:40taken back by their father
09:41who became the
09:42Guerrilla Warfare Commission.
09:44At a young age,
09:45Dean learned how to
09:47establish himself
09:48inside the camp
09:49within three years.
09:52This is where he met
09:53another Filipino young man
09:55who was with him
09:56in his studies
09:57with the help of his mother.
09:59When the US General Douglas
10:01MacArthur's forces returned
10:02to the Philippines,
10:03Dean found hope
10:05that he could be saved
10:06from the Japanese.
10:08But he was helped
10:09by the Japanese forces
10:11and they were lined up
10:12to be shot.
10:14But before the Japanese
10:15forces could begin
10:17their plan to wipe out
10:18those in the camp,
10:20the American soldiers
10:22and the Filipino guerrillas
10:23arrived.
10:28The reason that I am alive
10:30is because the Filipinos
10:32helped the Americans
10:33liberate us
10:35and they got to us
10:36an hour before
10:37we were actually going
10:38to be shot down
10:39by the Japanese.
10:40We were lined up for that.
10:41And the tanks,
10:42the American tanks
10:43got there earlier
10:44than thought
10:46because the Filipinos
10:48helped them.
10:49And that is how I am still,
10:51why I am still alive.
10:54And from escaping
10:55to the Philippines
10:56and coming here to America,
10:58Dean did not return
10:59to the Philippines
11:00because it was
11:01very painful for him.
11:02But according to Dean,
11:03the love of the Filipinos
11:04will continue to live
11:05in his heart.
11:07From Kalamazoo,
11:08Michigan, America,
11:10and for GMA Integrated News,
11:12JP Soriano,
11:14your witness.
11:17My fellow Filipinos,
11:18let's all be witnesses.
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11:26and www.gmanews.tv.
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