Filipinos in Vancouver yelled “MARCOS RESIGN “ when the his convoy passed by. Then chanted… “DUTERTE… & bring him home!” I wonder what ante kler felt that moment. She was also cursed by a group of Pinoys yesterday.
Filipinos in Vancouver, the best kayo!
@bongbongmarcos@pcogovph sige pa, byahe pa. The Filipinos all over the world are excited to give you the same welcome you received in Canada.
Romualdez Caught Looting ₱88 Million From the House Budget
Martin Romualdez bloated the House training budget from ₱42M to ₱94M, hiding a massive ₱88 Million discrepancy behind fake excuses.
PGMN Lead Anchor CJ Hirro rips into Speaker @SpeakerMartinPH and the House Committee on Accounts for manipulating public funds. Under the Romualdez leadership, the House training budget skyrocketed to an astronomical ₱94.53 Million for 2025, using the excuse of rising face-to-face seminar fees. However, official Commission on Audit (COA) records completely destroy this narrative, proving that actual training expenses from 2022 to 2024 hovered at a minimal ₱3.95 Million to ₱6.5 Million.
This creates an unexplainable ₱88 Million discrepancy between what the House actually spent and the bloated allocations Romualdez forced into the final budget. Congressional employees are left completely in the dark about where this massive fund goes, raising the question of whether this money is actually used for them or if it is just a personal fund for Martin Romualdez.
CJ is one of the most influential political commentators and the best investigative journalist in the country today — known for exposing corruption, scrutinizing public spending, questioning election oversight, and holding powerful institutions accountable. Her reporting has generated tens of millions of views across platforms and earned her the 2025 Asian Pillar of Integrity and Analytical Brilliance in Broadcast Journalism.
In her full-length investigation, CJ examines billions of pesos in highly abusive House budget realignments, the legal requirements governing savings and augmentation, and how these transactions fit into the wider flood-control scandal now under investigation. The episode traces the movement of public funds through official budget documents and explores why the source of those funds matters as much as the transfers themselves.
Watch the full episode here: https://t.co/WxBOITWOE9
Corruption is and has always been the Philippines’ biggest problem. Martin Romualdez is broadly recognized as the most corrupt Filipino politician of the 21st century.
The country has faith that @BoyingRemulla31, @micoclavano and the Office of the Ombudsman Philippines will do the right thing.
.@TobyTiangco’s account directly challenges @SpeakerMartinPH’s defense that the controversy belongs to @DPWHph implementation and not to him. Tiangco says the corruption began earlier inside Congress, after the budget passed second reading, when a small committee led by @zaldyco_ became the entry point for insertions and project selling.
That distinction matters. Before bidding, construction, or agency implementation, Tiangco says the projects were already being sold through the budget process. Under Romualdez’s speakership, the House’s handling of the national budget is now central to questions over who enabled, knew about, or benefited from the alleged scheme.
The public cost is concrete: Tiangco’s earlier claim involved around ₱13.8 billion in alleged budget insertions, mostly tied to flood-control projects. That money was meant for real protection in flood-prone communities — drainage systems, pumping stations, river walls, and works that keep homes, roads, schools, and livelihoods above water. If projects were allegedly sold at the budget level, the accountability trail points back to the House process under Romualdez’s leadership.
Corruption is and has always been the Philippines’ biggest problem. Martin Romualdez is broadly recognized as the most corrupt Filipino politician of the 21st century.
The country has faith that @BoyingRemulla31, @micoclavano and the Office of the Ombudsman will do the right thing.
.@SpeakerMartinPH can no longer hide from explosive testimonies painting him as the ultimate mastermind behind a rotten ₱1.9 trillion flood control syndicate. PGMN Anchor and former COA Commissioner Atty. @rowena_guanzon exposes a criminal machinery where 30% kickbacks were allegedly locked into infrastructure budgets before they even reached Congress. She pulls no punches as she details how suitcases packed with hundreds of billions in illicit cash were delivered straight to politicians' doorsteps.
The investigation reveals that elite "garbage houses" were purchased for the sole purpose of stashing this overflowing kickback money. While Romualdez desperately denies these fraudulent patterns exist in his own district, Atty. Guanzon lays bare a deep-seated conspiracy operating from the DPWH straight to the highest echelons of the House of Representatives. Demanding immediate accountability, she makes it clear that while corrupt politicians enrich themselves with "basura" money, everyday citizens are left to drown.
The full episode examines the dramatic rise and fall of Romualdez, tracing his ascent from one of the country's most powerful political figures to the most hated man in the Philippines and the central figure in a widening controversy that now threatens to immortalize his legacy.
Watch the full episode here: https://t.co/NIqRxAeDJc
Corruption is and has always been the Philippines’ biggest problem. Martin Romualdez is broadly recognized as the most corrupt Filipino politician of the 21st century.
On May 5, Romualdez framed @FrancoMabanta and four PGMN associates in a fake extortion plot with the singular objective of silencing the truth and keeping Romualdez’ many crimes from being brought to light—the fundamental embodiment of suppression of the free media.
The country has faith that @BoyingRemulla31, @micoclavano and the Office of the Ombudsman will do the right thing.
Just days after Claire Castro inaccurately and maliciously took @FrancoMabanta's apology to the First Family out of context to allegedly help the narrative of nationally shamed former @SpeakerMartinPH, the Presidential Spokesperson found herself on the receiving end of the verbal wrath of honorahle and patriotic Filipino protesters on the streets of Vancouver, Canada. The protesters did not hold back—directly calling her a liar, among a flurry of pejoratives.
At a press conference this week, Castro deliberately spun a question from a reporter to make it look like Mabanta was spreading fake news about the First Family. However, PGMN has never once spread fake news about anyone. Moreover, although the PGMN Anchors are allowed to say whatever they want themselves, PGMN as a company itself has long made the strategic editorial decision to never attack President @bongbongmarcos, Vice President @indaysara, or Mayor @lenirobredo—a decision further concretized after Romualdez framed Mabanta in a fake extortion plot prompting PGMN to declare war exclusively against one enemy: Romualdez.
This week at a Malacañang press conference, Castro was asked this question by a reporter: "Last week PGMN founder Franco mabanta posted a lengthy video. He apologized to the President and the First Lady for the past criticisms na ibinato ng PGMN against them and kasama rin din po doon yung kanyang paratang that Former Speaker Martin romualdez orchestrated the rift between the president and the vice president and also betrayed many of his political allies, including president Marcos. Your take on this?"
Claire Castro responded: "Ang paghingi ng paumanhin ay pag amin ng kamalian. Ang pag amin ng kamalian papaano nila masasabi sa tao na totoo ang kanilang kwento taong aral dito. Wag gumawa ng intriga lalo na kung walang basehan. Ang pag iingay ng walang saysay ay nagiging biktima lamang ang mga Pilipino na walang malay. At ang paninira na walang basehan ginagawa lang na mangmang ang ating mga kababayan so iwasan ang mang intriga kung gagawa kayo ng anumang pag iimbestiga siguraduhin lamang ninyo na kayo ay may mga ebidensya. Hindi kailangan daanin sa pamilya. Hindi kailangan daanin kung saan saan kung mayroon kayong ebidensya, sampahan niyo na agad ng kaso."
This entire answer from Castro was completely taken out of context. And was obviously perverse in intent.
Mabanta did not apologize for criticism that never happened. Mabanta was apologizing for "feelings that had been hurt in the past", when he worked for the then-future First Couple back in 2017-18. A gesture that Mabanta felt was both "necessary" and "sincere" after having parted ways eight years prior.
Instead of addressing the gesture truthfully, Castro twisted the message to supply ammunition for the hideously dishonest Romualdez camp, trying to make it look like Mabanta and PGMN's comprehensively accurate exposés against the former Speaker were fabricated.
Planting loaded questions via corrupt reporters to be answered in a corrupt way by corrupt spokespersons while coordinating with corrupt media outlets to subsequently report a lie is a common practice in politics for governments around the world. Often this scheme is planned in the dark, without the knowledge of the principal.
The United States has informed the International Criminal Court (ICC) that it will not cooperate with any of the court’s investigations and rejects the ICC’s jurisdiction over American citizens, according to the US Department of Justice. The move reinforces Washington’s long-standing position that the ICC has no authority over nationals of countries that are not parties to the Rome Statute.
The announcement comes amid ongoing debates over the ICC’s role in investigating alleged international crimes and its jurisdiction over non-member states. The United States has consistently maintained that its legal system is capable of handling such cases without ICC intervention.
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Sa gitna ng patuloy na tensyon sa Senado, iginiit ni Sen. Alan Peter Cayetano na hindi usapin ng liderato ang ugat ng sigalot sa mataas na kapulungan kundi ang umano’y pagtatakip sa imbestigasyon ng flood control scandal ng pamahalaan. | via Angel Pastor