Good Governance

In the wake of the assassination of jueteng whistleblower Boy Mayor, Makabayan senatorial bet and Nacionalista Party guest candidate Satur Ocampo has revived calls for the passage of a law protecting whistleblowers.

Makabayan senatorial bet and Nacionalista Party guest candidate Satur Ocampo today expressed alarm over the brutal killing of Wilfredo Cimanis Mayor, a confessed “jueteng” operator from Albay who once tagged President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo’s son, Pampanga Rep. Juan Miguel “Mikey” Arroyo, two other congressmen and a former lawmaker of benefitting from jueteng in Pampanga.

Sitsit Campaign

To the conventional political strategist, Architect Adonis Simpao's fight against Pres. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo for the congressional seat of the 2nd District of Pampanga is an exercise in futility.

But not for Satur Ocampo.

BAYAN MUNA representatives today filed a bill to prohibit Pres. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo and any Chief Executive thereafter from appointing members of the judiciary, including the Chief Justice, two months immediately before the next presidential elections and up to the end of his or her term. Bayan Muna fears that allowing Pres.