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Kris Aquino’s Biggest Regret About Her Brother’s 6 Years As President

May 14, 2016 Pol Pinoy Leave a comment

Kris Aquino (in yellow dress), with Mexican President Nieto, to her right, and Manila Mayor Joseph Estrada, extreme left. (Photo: ABS-CBN)

QUEZON CITY, Philippines (The Adobo Chronicles, Manila Bureau) – She’s is known as the Philippines’ “Queen of all Media,” and, in the last six years, the “presidential sister.” On several occasions, she represented her brother in welcoming and entertaining visiting foreign dignitaries, including Pope Francis and Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto.

As President NoyNoy Aquino prepares to step down and give way to the new Rodrigo Duterte administration, The Adobo Chronicles sat down once last time with Kris to get her personal feelings about her brother’s presidency.

We asked her what her biggest regret was about the last 6 years while NoyNoy occupied Malacañang, the presidential palace.

The spotlight-loving actress and TV host said, “My biggest regret was that my brother did not make me the First Lady. (NoyNoy is a bachelor)

Kris became very emotional during the interview, when we told her that President-elect Duterte has picked his daughter Sara, newly-elected mayor of Davao City, as his First Lady.

“Oh, see, puwede pala iyon (See, it can be done),” Kris said, wiping tears from her eyes.

We empathize with Ms. Aquino and wish her the best of luck, post-NoyNoy.

Government, Politics

First In Philippine History: Two Mayors Will Reside In Presidential Palace

May 14, 2016 Pol Pinoy Leave a comment

MANILA, Philippines (The Adobo Chronicles, Manila Bureau) – When President Aquino turns over the reins of government to the newly-elected administration of Rodrigo Duterte, there will be not one, but two mayors who will occupy Malacañang, the presidential palace.

Duterte had already announced that his daughter Sara will become the country’s First Lady (Duterte is separated from his wife and is known to be living with two “wives” and two girlfriends.). But Sara has also just been elected mayor of Davao City. That’s one mayor in Malacañang.

The other mayor? Rod Duterte himself.

Although he will be sworn in as president, Duterte wants to be called mayor. He made that clear during a recent interview. “Let the word spread,” he said.

This will be the first time in Philippine history that an elected vice president will be reporting to a mayor.

Government, Politics, Technology

COMELEC: Change In Hash Code Was Mere Cosmetic

May 12, 2016 Pol Pinoy Leave a comment

MANILA, Philippines (The Adobo Chronicles, Manila Bureau) – As the vote count in the May 9 Philippine elections reached more than 90%, the camp of vice presidential aspirant Senator Bongbong Marcos had asked to stop the count while seeking an investigation into a suspicious new script computer command allegedly fed to the Commission on Elections (COMELEC) transparency server.

The Marcos camp said that the introduction of the command, known in technical jargon as “hash code” could have very well altered the vote count.

The unofficial vote count began with Marcos leading his closest rival, Leni Robredo, by almost 1,000 votes. Marcos said that his vote count suspiciously started a downward trend right after the hash code was changed.

As of press time, Robredo leads the VP race by more than 220,000 votes, with almost 96% of precincts reporting.

Today, the COMELEC said that the introduction of the new hash code did not affect the data and vote count. “It was purely cosmetic,” the poll body assured.

However, COMELEC declined to disclose whether the cosmetic change was done by Mary Kay, Revlon, Kokuryu or some other cosmetic company.