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                    [ArticleID] => 502803
                    [Title] => Passage of law to allocate funds for poll bets pushed
                    [Summary] => 

Apparently disappointed over how people choose personalities as their leaders rather than looking into their platforms and programs, Senator Edgardo Angara yesterday batted for the passage of the Political Party Act which also aims to allocate funds for parties and candidates.

[DatePublished] => 2009-09-07 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 382156 [Title] => A platform for the silent majority [Summary] => I dropped by the launch of Unlad Party at the Sulo Hotel last Thursday with trepidation. [DatePublished] => 2007-01-28 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134199 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804784 [AuthorName] => Carmen N. Pedrosa [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 381039 [Title] => ‘Reduce money politics’ movement to be launched [Summary] => DAGUPAN CITY — Speaker Jose de Venecia Jr. said yesterday he is poised to set into motion on Tuesday, when Congress resumes session, an idle measure that requires state subsidies to political parties to shield them from corrupt private benefactors as well as modernize them.
[DatePublished] => 2007-01-21 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1096897 [AuthorName] => Eva Visperas [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 185883 [Title] => RP losing billions to corruption — Angara [Summary] => For every peso spent on infrastructure projects and the procurement of goods and services, between 20-50 centavos is lost to corruption.

So pervasive was graft, the World Bank reported last year, that the Philippine government lost $48 billion over the last 20 years due to corruption, exceeding the country’s entire foreign debt of $40.6 billion during that period.
[DatePublished] => 2002-11-29 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 159914 [Title] => LDP susuporta pa rin kahit nagboykot sa Pol Summit [Summary] => Binoykot man ang political summit, ipinahayag kahapon ng Laban ng Demokratikong Pilipino na sinusuportahan pa rin naman nila ang mga panukala at mga hakbang na isinusulong sa naturang pulong.

Sinabi ni Senador Edgardo Angara, presidente ng LDP, nagkausap na sila ni House Speaker Jose de Venecia, ang convenor ng political summit at ginarantiyahan na niya ito na susuportahan ng buong-buo ng kanyang partido ang ilang mga panukala upang maalis ang korupsyon, pandaraya at "bata-bata" system sa pulitika.
[DatePublished] => 2002-05-06 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Bansa [SectionUrl] => bansa [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 153339 [Title] => Angara seeks ban on political turncoatism [Summary] => Sen. Edgardo Angara has filed a bill seeking a ban on political turncoatism and on parties’ fielding of criminals as candidates for national elections "to usher in a new regime of responsible and committed politics."

Angara is hopeful that Senate Bill 2041, also known as the Political Party Act of 2002, will be "a dramatic reform measure that will end years of ward politics and political chameleons."
[DatePublished] => 2002-03-10 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) ) )
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