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VICE-PRESIDENTAL CANDIDATE

Walden Flores Bello

Nov. 11, 1945

Scorpio

76 years old

Partido Lakas Ng Masa

  • B.A. in Humanities, Ateneo de Manila University
  • M.A. in Sociology, Princeton University
  • PhD in Sociology, Princeton University

Professional Experience

  • Akbayan Partylist

    2017–2015 Representative

  • Focus on the Global South

    1995 Co-founder and Executive Director

  • Institute for Food and Development Policy

    1990–1994 Executive Director

  • Freedom from Debt Coalition

    President

Significant Works/Projects

  • International Studies Association

    2008 Outstanding Public Scholar

  • Right Livelihood Award aka Alternative Nobel Prize

    2003

  • Suh Sang Don for Outstanding Contributions to Global Justice

    2001

  • Economic Development

    • Reorienting the economy to meet domestic needs
    • Upholding principles of workers’ control
    • Welfare of farmers
    • Taxing individuals with net worth of more than P100 million
    • Cancellation of debt repayment for five years
    • Recovery of ill-gotten wealth from the Marcoses
  • Social Development & Human Rights

    • Fight against the persecution of media outlets and guarantee the freedom of expression and right to information
    • Facilitate the passage of the proposed measures on divorce, decriminalizing abortion, and same-sex marriage
    • Promoting transformative social protection

Agriculture

  • Decreasing import, increasing export

    For

    Bello's running mate, Ka Leody de Guzman, has expressed their shared vision for the economy, saying "We have so many natural resources, and yet our economy is dependent on imports, while our policies are export-oriented. I want to repeal the Rice Tariffication Law that allows big business to import unlimited volumes of rice, at the expense of local farm industries."

  • Increased budget for local livelihood, farmers, fishermen, etc

    For

    "Our priority is to create food security in the country so that our people will have the opportunity to buy the food they need. To do that, we need to support our farmers and fishermen for food productivity and to reach a level of food sovereignty in our country." the Bello-De Guzman tandem expressed.

Infrastructure

  • Road improvements/expansion (skyways, etc.)

    Not Applicable

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  • Improved public transport (PUVs, Jeeps, etc)

    For

    We really need a good plan for mass transit, especially the MRT. Only a people's government can do this, and not foreign investors who will be the beneficiaries when the Public Services Act is passed in the Senate, which will give them 100 percent ownership.

  • Accountability of telcos for slow internet speeds

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Environment

  • Advanced mining

    Against

    If elected for vice president, Bello said he will "push to ban all mining operations in the Philippines and “reverse” the government’s policy decisions in the mineral sector."

  • Satisfaction with Climate Change Efforts (Is the PH doing enough)

    Against

    If he were to be elected Bello states, "Immediately, we will phase out all coal-fired power plants. We will also push for legislation to make large-scale logging a crime of plunder, with severe penalties if found guilty"

  • Dolomite beach

    Against

    Bello criticized the dolomite beach project and said, "It's wrong to squander millions of pesos from the national treasury for a beach that destroys nature."

Family and Women's Rights

  • Divorce

    For

    "With divorce and decriminalization of abortion, we need to come to the 21st century. We can’t be a country that is stuck in the 17th century," he said. The De Guzman-Bello tandem has been vocal about its support for women's and LGBTQ+ rights.

  • LGBTQ rights (same-sex union, SOGIE)

    For

    "Marriage has expanded to seal and celebrate a loving union between persons of the same sex." Bello said 

  • Legalization of Abortion

    For

    "With divorce and decriminalization of abortion, we need to come to the 21st century. We can’t be a country that is stuck in the 17th century," he said. The De Guzman-Bello tandem has been vocal about its support for women's and LGBTQ+ rights.

Labor/Worker's Rights

  • Increase of minimum wage

    For

    De Guzman, along with Bello, proposes a Labor- First Policy that will include an end to all forms of contractualization, an aggressive job creation program, and a P750 national minimum wage.

  • Increased budget and support for OFWs

    For

    Bello urges tangible action and support for the government, saying "If the DoLE does not endorse criminal penalties or undertake substantive administrative actions against personnel attached to the DoLE in the Middle East, then I will be forced to file a resolution cutting your budget by 25 percent."

Global Politics

  • Ukraine's Freedom from Russia (Russia-Ukraine)

    Undecided

    Bello said the Philippines should avoid taking sides amid the tension between Russia and Ukraine, but act fast to protect the Filipinos who want to leave Ukraine.

  • Philippine-China Relations

    Undecided

    Bello advised bilateral talks between China and the Philippines aimed at de-escalation of military tensions. The bilateral talks should focus solely on military de-escalation, not resolving the territorial conflicts.

Previous Administration

  • Drug war

    Against

    "It all boils down to a war against the poor. We can be sure that even with a high kill rate, we will still have a massive drug problem after six years [after Duterte's term]." Bello stated about the Duterte regime's drug war strategy.

  • Current COVID and Disaster Response (lockdown, government measures, etc)

    Against

    Bello noted that the national government should be "ramping up" its efforts to urge the Filipinos to get vaccinated instead of passing the burden to them at the risk of their livelihood.

  • Political Dynasties

    Against

    Bello is against political dynaties and is particularly critical about the Marcos family, calling them "greatest evil of the political system that we have."

  • ABS-CBN News | March 07, 2022

    Ex-Davao City PIO Jefry Tupas files cyberlibel complaint vs Walden Bello

    Former Davao City public information officer Jefry Tupas filed Monday cyber-libel charges against vice presidential candidate Walden Bello. In his complaint filed at the Davao City Prosecutor's office, Tupas said Bello issued "utterly false" statements that he was "nabbed" for "snorting P1.5 million worth of drugs on November 6, 2021", supposedly in relation to an anti-drug operation at a beach party in Davao de Oro that day.

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Track Record

  • Akbayan Partylist

    2017–2015

    Representative

  • Focus on the Global South

    1995

    Co-founder and Executive Director

  • Institute for Food and Development Policy

    1990–1994

    Executive Director

  • Freedom from Debt Coalition

    President

Platform Key Points

  • Economic Development

    • Reorienting the economy to meet domestic needs
    • Upholding principles of workers’ control
    • Welfare of farmers
    • Taxing individuals with net worth of more than P100 million
    • Cancellation of debt repayment for five years
    • Recovery of ill-gotten wealth from the Marcoses
  • Social Development & Human Rights

    • Fight against the persecution of media outlets and guarantee the freedom of expression and right to information
    • Facilitate the passage of the proposed measures on divorce, decriminalizing abortion, and same-sex marriage
    • Promoting transformative social protection

Stances on Issues

Controversies

  • ABS-CBN News | March 07, 2022

    Ex-Davao City PIO Jefry Tupas files cyberlibel complaint vs Walden Bello

    Former Davao City public information officer Jefry Tupas filed Monday cyber-libel charges against vice presidential candidate Walden Bello. In his complaint filed at the Davao City Prosecutor's office, Tupas said Bello issued "utterly false" statements that he was "nabbed" for "snorting P1.5 million worth of drugs on November 6, 2021", supposedly in relation to an anti-drug operation at a beach party in Davao de Oro that day.

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1 Lito Atienza

Track Record

  • House of Representatives

    2020–Present

    Deputy Speaker, 18th Congress

  • BUHAY Partylist

    2013–Present

    Representative

  • Department of Environment and Natural Resources

    2007–2009

    Environment Secretary

  • Manila City

    1998–2007

    Manila Mayor

  • Manila City

    1992–1998

    Manila Vice Mayor

  • National Housing Authority

    1998

    General Manager

Platform Key Points

  • Unified Governance

    • Emphasizes strong unity and collaboration between him and Manny Pacquiao
  • Anti-corruption

    • Advocates for stronger enforcement of laws regulating smuggling at the borders
  • Pro-life Measures

    • Strongly opposes "anti-life" messures such as abortion, divorce, and the death penalty

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Controversies

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3 Rizalito David

Track Record

  • Senator Robert Jaworski and Senator Kit Tatad

    1998–2004

    Head Executive Assistant, Concurrent Director for Political Affairs

  • Political Operation for Mindanao

    1997

    Consultant on Political Affairs and Head

  • Liberal Party-PDP Laban

    1992

    Chief of Reseach and Monitoring Staff

Platform Key Points

  • Faith-centered Revolution

    • Creation of a national commission on moral regeneration and cultural restoration
    • Seeking to re-establish moral standards and norms, restore confidence on public service
  • Covid-19 Protocols

    • Disagrees with mandatory vaccine or other protocols
    • Basing strategy on scientific knowledge and informed consent of the public
  • Anti-corruption

    • Establish a truth commission to investigate all corruption of all past administrations
    • Establishing a separate commission to investigate the management of the COVID-19 pandemic
  • Education

    • Return emphasis on teaching good manners and right conduct at the elementary level, poetry at the high school level and quantum mechanics and relativity principles at the tertiary level

Stances on Issues

Controversies

  • PhilStar | Dec. 09, 2015

    Comelec declares Rizalito David as nuisance candidate

    The Commission on Elections (Comelec) Second Division on Wednesday declared presidential aspirant Rizalito David as a nuisance candidate. David, a defeated senatorial candidate in the 2013 elections, filed the disqualification case against Sen. Grace Poe before the Senate Electoral Tribunal (SET). The Comelec panel canceled David's certificate of candidacy (COC) for president for the 2016 national elections.

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4 Sara Duterte

Track Record

  • Davao City

    2016–Present; 2010–2013

    Mayor

  • Davao City

    2007–2010

    Vice Mayor

Platform Key Points

  • Mandatory Military Service

    • Mandatory military service in the AFP for Filipinos aged 18 years old with paid a subsidy in return
  • Disaster Preparedness

    • Execture disaster preparedness training performed by Sangguniang Kabataan in Davao City on a national level
  • Youth and Adolescence Development

    • Highlighting programs that address mental health wellness such as Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Expression, teen pregnancy and sex education, and HIV incidents among the youth
  • Healthcare Support

    • Supporting the efforts of legistlators under her senetorial line up to implement and improve Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth) processes

Stances on Issues

Controversies

  • ABS-CBN News | July 11, 2011

    Sheriffs file case againsts Duterte

    The Sheriffs Confederation of the Philippines Inc (SCOPHIL) on Monday filed a complaint against Davao Mayor Sara Duterte for punching a court sheriff serving a demolition order in Agdao district earlier this month.

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5 Manny Lopez

Track Record

  • Labor Party of the Philippines

    Present

    Vice Chairman, National Advisory Board

  • CISCI Technology Solutions

    2019

    CEO

  • The Lincoln Place

    Managing Director

  • NFA Grainscor

    President and General Manager

Platform Key Points

  • Economic Recovery

    • Creating a new Omnibus Investment Code) to improve the way the Filipinos do business that to attract more foreign investments, propel jobs and business opportunities, and livelihood
    • Proposing and passing a bankruptcy law to aid businesses badly affected by the COVID-19 pandemic
    • Providing low-interest loans for MSMEs, entrepreneurs, workers, farmers, and profressionals
  • Systematic Change and Structural Reform

    • Implementing e-Government systems and digitalization of the tax collection system to reduce systemic corruption
    • Developing audit procedures in tax collection
    • Renationalizing public utilities, particularly power and water utilities to lower rates, protect consumer rights and welfare
    • Improving fiscal policy
    • Supporting the reallocation of up to 40% of national government revenues and devolution of essential public services to local government units
  • Agriculture

    • Integrating agro-industrial-resource development program to enhance the competitive advantage of MSMEs, agri-fishery, mining and strategic industries.
    • Optimize local production, attract more investments to generate jobs, livelihoods and opportunities nationwide
  • Disaster Preparedness

    • Science-based, cost-effective approach to pandemic management and pragmatic strategy for public health and safety protocols
    • Having decision-makers in pandemic response and recovery enact policies that will specifically address the issues beyond commercial and political interests
  • Education

    • Improve quality of education in all levels, aligned with industry needs, socio-cultural values and national development goals

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6 Doc Willie Ong

Track Record

  • ABS-CBN's Salamat Dok TV Show

    2008–2018

    Residential Medical Expert and Volunteer Doctor

  • DZRH's Docs on Call

    2009–2017

    Resident doctor and Host

  • Department of Health

    2010–2014

    Consultant

Platform Key Points

  • COVID-19 Response

    • Free RT-PCR testing to lower COVID positivity rates
    • Better pay for health workers
    • Additional P100 million fund for hospitals for poor patients
    • Creating more hospitals, including field hospitals
    • Providing more COVID-19 medicines like remdesivir and tocilizumab
    • Improving data to better reflect actual utilization of hospitals and other health facilities
    • Appointing a doctor to head IATF-EID - Introducing simplified quarantine categories: only enhanced community quarantine, modified ECQ, general community quarantine
  • Health Care

    • Providing free laboratory tests under PhilHealth
    • Providing free health consultations
    • Providing mental health care and psychiatry for the poor
    • Making medicines more affordable to the public
    • Improving health care facilities and equipment
    • Creating bills for universal health care, and cancer

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7 Kiko Pangilinan

Track Record

  • Philippine Senate

    2016–Present

    Senator

  • Philippine Senate

    2017–2020

    Minority Leader, Commission on Appointments

  • Otso Diretso Senate Slate

    2019

    Campaign Manager

  • Office of the President

    2014–2015

    Cabinet Secretary, Presidential Assistant for Food Security and Agricultural Modernization

  • Liberal Party Senate Slate

    2010

    Campaign Manager

  • Philippine Senate

    2004–2008

    Senate Majority Leader

  • Philippine Senate

    2003–2012

    Senator

  • Quezon City Council

    Councilor

Platform Key Points

  • Climate Protection

    • Investing in and promote sustainable and climate-friendly agricultural practices, including water resource management
  • Business and Trade

    • Boosting local production and provide incentives to the private sector that will provide support to agri enterprises
  • Social Welfare

    • Building the largest Public-Private Partnership against hunger: Food banks per barangay supported by churches and the private sector.
  • Agriculture

    • Double the budget for the agricultural sector
    • Create meassures to increase the profits of fishermen and farmers
    • Promote the full implementation of the Sagip Saka Act and buying directly from farmers at the right amount
    • Advancing the Magna Carta for Small Farmers

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8 Carlos Serapio

Track Record

  • Office of the Executive Secretary of President Benigno Aquino

    Lead of Consultant Pool

  • Office of the Presidential Adviser on Political Affairs

    Consultant

  • National Coastwatch Center – Office of the President

    Consultant

  • United Nations Development Programme Local Democracy Project in Asia

    Consultant

  • USAID Inventory and Database Project for the Court of Tax Appeals

    Project Manager

  • Local Government of Catanghalan, Obando, Bulacan

    Councilman

Platform Key Points

  • COVID-19 Response

    • Treating respiratory-related sickness such as COVID-19 traditional indigenous practices such as the popular 'suob' practice and the use of virgin coconut oil, among others
  • Government System

    • Shifting towards federalism and people empowerment

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9 Vicente Tito Sotto

Track Record

  • Philippine Senate

    2018–Present

    Senate President

  • Philippine Senate

    2010–Present

    Senator

  • Philippine Senate

    2016–2018

    Senate Majority Floor Leader

  • Philippine Senate

    2010–2013

    Senate Majority Floor Leader

  • Office of the President

    2008–2009

    Dangerous Drugs Board

  • Philippine Senate

    1992–2004

    Senator

  • Quezon City

    1988–1992

    Vice Mayor

Platform Key Points

  • Illegal drug policies

    • Advocates for a more holistic approach in solving the lingering problem of illegal drugs in the country
    • Focusing more on more on the prevention and rehabilitation of drug users
    • Applying supply and demand reduction strategies
  • Anti-insurgence

    • Supports the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict but says its officials who make "irresponsible" statements should be dismissed.
  • Budget Reform

    • Advocating for budget reform that will empower local government units and solve budget distribution imbalance in the country

Stances on Issues

Controversies

  • Rappler | Aug. 16, 2012

    Sotto’s staff admits plagiarizing blogger

    The chief of staff of Sen Vicente “Tito” Sotto III finally admitted that parts of his speech against the RH bill on Wednesday, August 15, were copied from a blog by a foreign author who calls herself the “Healthy Home Economist.”

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