Group sets standards for 2010 candidates

A national movement for the promotion of entrepreneurship in the country bares its criteria in choosing new leaders who would genuinely address the problem of poverty along with the protection of the environment and of basic human rights.

The group, calling themselves Movement for Better Values (MBV), bared its standards in choosing the next leaders of the country as candidates start filing their certificates of candidacy for the 2010 national and local elections.

“We want our leaders to know how our country must be run to ensure genuine economic growth that would directly benefit the poor, guarantee government transparency and environmental protection,” MBV chairman Exequiel Villacorta Jr., said.

Villar Calls for Justice, Indemnity for Human Rights Violation Victims

9 December 2009 : Nacionalista President Senator Manny Villar reiterated his stand of condemning any form of human rights violation past, present, and future. He joins the cause of human rights advocates and activists nationwide who are tirelessly fighting for their rights and principles.

Villar vows to work with various human rights groups to help them, once and for all, attain what they are clamoring for and what rightfully belong to them—justice and indemnification.