Manny Villar is now the newly elected Senate President supported by Senator Miriam Defensor-Santiago, Richard Gordon, Pia Cayetano, Allan Peter Cayetano, Lito Lapid, Bong Revilla, Joker Arroyo, Edgardo Angara, Juan Ponce Enrile at Juan Miguel Zubiri,  Francis Pangilinan at Gringo Honasan, Jinggoy Estrada, Francis Escudero and Alan Peter Cayetano.
Pimentel was defeated by Villar. I just hope that Villar will do his best for the country.

Team Unity (TU) senatorial bet Juan Miguel Zubiri led Genuine Opposition (GO) bet Aquilino “Koko” Pimentel III by 476 votes in the canvass of election returns (ERs) from the 38 precincts of Pagalungan, Maguindanao, yesterday.
Zubiri ranked 8th in the top 12 senatorial candidates in Pagalungan with 1,216 votes, while Pimentel landed in the 20th spot with 740 votes.
GO senatorial bets dominated the Pagalungan canvass, with six GO, four TU, and two independent candidates making it to the top 12 spots. Jamulul Kiram of the TU got the highest number of …

The Commission on Elections proclaimed Wednesday night 10 winning senatorial candidates, including six from the Genuine Opposition, two from the administration’s Team Unity, and two independents.held at the Philippine International Convention Center, CCP Complex on Roxas Boulevard, Pasay City.
The ten proclaimed as senators, based on ranking, are Loren Legarda (GO), Francis “Chiz” Escudero (GO), Panfilo “Ping” Lacson (GO), Manuel Villar Jr (GO), Francis “Kiko” Pangilinan (ind.), Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino (GO), Edgardo Angara (TU), Alan Cayetano (GO), Joker Arroyo (TU), and Gregorio “Gringo” Honasan (ind.).
All the winning senatorial candidates except …

As what I have blogged the other day , The 10 Senators can already be proclaimed as winner. And here they are now . The Proclamation is set on Wednesday
MANILA, Philippines — The Commission on Elections, sitting as the National Board of Canvassers (NBoC), will proclaim on Wednesday 10 senatorial candidates, Chairman Benjamin Abalos Sr. said Monday.
This means that there are only two more candidates left to be proclaimed to complete the 12-man slate who will join 11 of their colleagues in the Senate.
But Abalos added that there would be …

As of June 1, 2007 (12 noon)

1 LEGARDA, L. – 17,385,490
2 ESCUDERO, F. – 17,235,737
3 LACSON, P. – 14,652,540
4 VILLAR, M. – 14,456,243
5 PANGILINAN, F. – 13,782,753
6 AQUINO, B. – 13,593,851
7 ANGARA, E. – 11,593,887
8 CAYETANO, A. – 11,137,705
9 ARROYO, J. – 11,001,965
10 HONASAN, G. – 10,819,595
11 TRILLANES, A. – 10,468,609
12 PIMENTEL, A. – 10,236,836
13. ZUBIRI, J. (TU)  10,018,053
14 RECTO, R. (TU) 9,863,646
15 DEFENSOR, M. (TU)  9,187,537

There are still possible changes of the Magic 12 since there are still about 2 Million Votes  to be counted by Comelec. But I do …

Below are the election result as of May 31, 2007 4:30 p.m.

1 LEGARDA, L. – 17,106,817
2 ESCUDERO, F. – 16,934,982
3 LACSON, P. – 14,391,494
4 VILLAR, M. – 14,225,533
5 PANGILINAN, F. – 13,570,178
6 AQUINO, B. – 13,358,905
7 ANGARA, E. – 11,453,242
8 CAYETANO, A. – 10,912,680
9 ARROYO, J. – 10,853,157
10 HONASAN, G. – 10,642,467
11 TRILLANES, A. – 10,270,365
12 PIMENTEL, A. – 10,055,051

Pimentel is still hanging on the 12th position who had about 150,000 lead from the 13th place Mike Zubiri and about 309,000 from Recto. Now the question is will KoKo still retains …

As of May 30, 2007 4 p.m. Genuine Opposition is still leading the counting based on COMELEC Audited Count.

LEGARDA, L. – 16,826,806
ESCUDERO, F. – 16,663,775
LACSON, P. – 14,106,629
VILLAR, M. – 14,000,871
PANGILINAN, F. – 13,340,796
AQUINO, B. – 13,114,292
ANGARA, E. – 11,307,589
ARROYO, J. – 10,750,186
CAYETANO, A. – 10,697,866
HONASAN, G. – 10,418,666
TRILLANES, A. – 10,012,668
PIMENTEL, A. – 9,862,695
ZUBIRI, J. – 9,763,360
RECTO, R. – 9,650,727
DEFENSOR, M. -  8,986,035
PICHAY, P. -  8,751,968

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Our voters in Samar had spoken thru their votes. They had gave a 6 GO, 4 TU, 2 independent for senators as reported in Samar News .
The Samar COMELEC Tally as follows :

Loren Legarda – 126,103 votes
Chiz Escudero – 118,901 votes
Ping Lacson - 103,135 votes.
Cesar Montano – 92,300 votes
Ed Angara with  – 89,272 votes.
Gringgo Honasan -  89,193 votes.
Prospero Pichay -  88,053 votes
Ralph Recto -  84,774 votes.
Kiko Pangilinan –  80,805 votes
Allan Cayetano – 78,224
Joker Arroyo  – 76,613
Mike Defensor – 76,305

Political observers though noted that Legarda’s votes only consisted 31% of Samar’s 412,653 votes. Not …

There is now reason for Pimentel to be happy because he again climbed to 12th pushing out administration bet Juan Miguel Zubiri from the winning circle, latest partial, official tally from the Commission on Elections (Comelec) showed.

Genuine Opposition (GO) candidate Aquilino “Koko” Pimentel III climbed back into the 12th spot, pushing out administration bet Juan Miguel Zubiri from the winning circle, latest partial, official tally from the Commission on Elections (Comelec) showed.
Comelec’s National Board of Canvassers’ tally as of 12:30 pm, Monday, showed Genuine Opposition (GO) bets still leading …

Team Unity (TU) senatorial bet Juan Miguel Zubiri knockdown Genuine Opposition (GO) candidate Aquilino “Koko” Pimentel from the 12th place in the Commission on Elections’ (Comelec) latest tally of the May 14 midterm election results as reported by GMANews.TV

Comelec’s partial, official tally as of 12 noon, Saturday, showed seven GO, three TU and two independent candidates remaining in the winning circle, with some of the bets exchanging positions in the top ranks.
Top four positions still remain under GO bets Loren Legarda with 15,283,897 votes, Francis Joseph “Chiz” Escudero with 15,086,068 …