Manila, May 13 -- Outgoing ACT-CIS Party-list Rep. Erwin Tulfo on Tuesday said his first priority once officially proclaimed as one of 12 winning senators is to push for unity.

Tulfo said he would work with incumbent senators and "his fellow senator-elects" regardless of political affiliation in order to bring unity to the Senate.

"What the Filipinos need to see is a collaborating crop of senators and public officials, so my first order of business once officially elected to the Senate is I will talk to both sides," Tulfo said in a statement.

As of 10:28 a.m. Tuesday, Tulfo is poised to secure a Senate seat based on the partial and unofficial results from the Commission on Elections' (Comelec) transparency servers, which placed him in ...