Cynthia Villar, a two-term senator, addresses a political rally in Las Piñas in the run-up to last month’s Philippine midterm election. Villar was one of several prominent political dynasts to ...

For the first time in Philippine political history, the Senate of the 20th Congress will have an unprecedented four pairs of ...

Two wars are raging in the minds of many Filipinos right now.

It is Cynthia Aguilar-Villar. Before May 12, she looked ... The fall of Cynthia Villar is the peoples' way of slapping the faces of members of political dynasties and business empires that seek to ...

It sounds like wishful thinking at the moment, but is there even a faint possibility that – in the aftermath of the midterm elections and looking ahead to the next big one down the road – President ...

Political dynasties have been a constant feature of our political history. Some undesirable outcomes have ensued like the weakening of competition in elections such that competent and qualified ...

The exponential growth of political dynasties puts an unfavourable spotlight on the Philippines as an elite democracy. In the provinces, members of political dynasties control at least 71 of the ...

But according to research by a group of Filipino economists, “Political dynasties in the Philippines are exceptional in their ...

THE Federation of Free Workers (FFW) is set to intervene in a landmark case before the Supreme Court that compels Congress to ...