ROBIN PADILLA

On October 8, 2021, Padilla filed his certificate of candidacy for senator under PDP–Laban for the 2022
election. his platforms include pushing for anti-criminality measures, a crackdown on illegal drugs, the
establishment of federalism and legislating community policing. Padilla stated that he is also against
giving tax incentives for foreign investors and seeks to increase the minimum income of Filipino families
to encourage Overseas Filipino Workers to go back home. He also said he would be hiring lawyers to
help him draft laws if he win.

Padilla won a seat in the Senate, topping the vote count. He believes it was his platform on federalism
and not solely his popularity as an actor that led to his win. Senator Win Gatchalian, who is an
reelectionist and in the UniTeam Alliance coalition like Padilla, has vouched for Padilla as a
representative for Muslims in the Senate. Following his win, Padilla announced that he would hire
lawyer Salvador Panelo to help him fulfill his role as senator.

In the 19th Congress, he voted to elect Juan Miguel Zubiri as Senate President, thus becoming part of
the majority bloc. He, however, abstained in the election of Joel Villanueva as Senate Majority Leade.
Padilla is the current Chairman of the Senate Committee on Constitutional Amendments and Revision of
Codes and the Senate Committee on Cultural Communities and Muslim Affairs.

LOREN REGARDA

Legarda ran for the Senate in 1998 under the Lakas-NUCD-UMDP Party. She was elected with more than
15 million votes, rendering her the highest number of votes in that year's election and becoming the
second woman to top a Philippine senatorial election. After Legarda filed her candidacy as senator in
late 1997, Tina Monzon-Palma who came from rival ABC (now TV5) and was the anchor of The Big News,
transferred to ABS-CBN in order to replace her on The World Tonight at the same time and joining
Angelo Castro, Jr. in order to run the latter for this election. In 1999, the newscast was replaced by
Pulso: Aksyon Balita on ABS-CBN and was moved to the ABS-CBN News Channel and until now, when?
the newscast is still airing.

During her first six years in the Senate, Legarda authored legislation benefiting women's and children's
rights, such as the Anti-Domestic Violence Act which seeks to uphold and protect the basic human rights
of women and their children, the Anti-Child Labor law which limits the employment of children below 15
years old, the Anti-Trafficking in Persons Act which aims to protect victims of human trafficking, the
Ecological Solid Waste Management Law which created the National Solid Waste Management
Commission, and the Tropical Fabric Law. She also authored the Eid'ul Fitr Holiday Law, Overseas
Absentee Voting Act of 2003, and the Philippine Ear Research Institute Act.

Legarda was named as one of the "Global Leaders for Tomorrow" by the World Economic Forum in
Davos, Switzerland in 2000, and was awarded by the United Nations Environmental Program (UNEP) in
Turin, Italy, for her work on the environment in 2001. Legarda played a role in the 2000–01
impeachment trial of Joseph Estrada that sparked the Second EDSA Revolution, voting to examine the
envelope containing evidence of alleged corruption of the Estrada administration. She was later chosen
to be the Senate's Majority Floor Leader from 2001 to 2004, becoming the first woman to hold the
position.
RAFFY TULFO

In 1999, Tulfo wrote a series of articles in his Abante-Tonite column alleging anomalous and illegal
activities by officials of the Bureau of Customs. Tulfo, together with publisher Allen Macasaet and
managing editor Nicolas Quijano Jr., were charged with libel by customs lawyer Carlos So on April 12,
1999. On February 28, 2005, the Pasay City Regional Trial Court found Tulfo, Macasaet and Quiano guilty
of 14 counts of libel and were sentenced to up to 32 years of imprisonment and ordered to pay a fine of
₱14,700,000 total.[15][16] On June 29, 2021, the Supreme Court acquitted Tulfo of the libel charges.

On March 24, 2004, Tulfo published an article in his Abante-Tonite column accusing businessman
Michael Guy of seeking help from former finance secretary Juanita Amatong to halt a tax fraud
investigation by the Department of Finance’s Revenue Integrity Protection Service (RIPS). The claim was
proven false, however, as the RIPS only investigates government officials and did not have jurisdiction
over Guy. On February 24, 2010, the Makati Regional Trial Court convicted Tulfo and seven
representatives from Abante's publisher of libel and were ordered to pay a total of ₱10,211,200 to
Michael Guy for damages and attorney's fees. In July 2019, the Supreme Court upheld the conviction
and increased the amount of damages needed to be paid.

In January 2007, Tulfo and his brothers Ramon and Erwin, each posted bail after a Quezon City Regional
Trial Court judge issued warrants for their arrests following a libel complaint by then-first gentleman
Mike Arroyo. The brothers have previously accused Arroyo of using his influence to force the
government-sequestered station RPN to cancel their investigative news program Isumbong Mo: Tulfo
Brothers. On July 16, 2007, the libel case against the brothers was dismissed.

In June 2014, Tulfo again posted bail for an arrest warrant issued by the Quezon City Regional Trial Court
after Senior Police Officer III Abubakhar Manlangit filed a libel case against him and his brother Erwin.
The policeman, who appeared in a November 15, 2011, episode of T3, also filed an MTRCB complaint
against the brothers after being called a "thief" on air which contributed to a 20-day suspension of the
program. On April 18, 2022, Tulfo's Senate bid faced a disqualification case due his conviction for the
crime of libel.