President Benigno Simeon C. Aquino III delivered his first State of the Nation Address (SONA) today at the Session Hall of the House of Representatives in Quezon City. The SONA also marks the opening of the 15th Congress.

Here’s the full transcript of the first SONA of President Benigno Simeon C. Aquino III:

The Commission on Election (COMELEC) yesterday proclaimed twenty-eight (28) winning Partylist organization of the recently concluded 2010 automated elections. These 28 Party-list organizations were among the more than 150 Partylist groups who participated in the last election.

The following are the 28 winning party-list organizations with the total number of votes garnered and number of congressional seats:

The two chambers of congress will start convening themselves as Presidential Electoral Tribunal that will canvas the votes for the positions of President and Vice-President. This is despite the allegations of massive electoral fraud being aired by losing candidates on the recently held May 10 national election.

Nine members from each houses of congress will form part of the Presidential Electoral Tribunal, the House panels is composed of House Speaker Prospero Nograles, Majority Leader Arthur Defensor, Minority Leader Ronaldo Zamora, Senior Deputy Majority Leader Neptali Gonzales II, Senior Deputy Minority Leader Roilo Golez, Reps. Crispin Remulla (Cavite), Didagen Dilangalen (Shariff Kabunsuan with Cotabato City), and Matias Defensor (Quezon City), and Michael John Duavit (Rizal).

The Commission on Election proclaimed the 12 winning Senators of the recently held national election. Nine Senators were initially proclaimed on Saturday, May 15, 2010 while the last 3 were proclaimed earlier today.

Of the 12 Senators, 6 were re-electionists, 4 are returning senators and 2 are new to the senate who were both former congressmen. The complete list of the 12 winning senators are (according to vote ranking):

Re-electionists senators Ramon ‘Bong’ Revilla, Jr. and Jinggoy Estrada tops the latest Pulse Asia Senatorial survey which was conducted last January 22 to 26 2010.

The 2 actor-politicians topped the 49 senatorial aspirants for the coming May 10, 2010 elections. The top 12 slot were filled by mostly re-electionists and former senators. The two other actor-politician candidates, former Dangerous Drug Board chairman Vicente ‘Tito’ Sotto III and Senator Manuel ‘Lito’ lapid were in 7th & 8th place respectively.

Senator Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino continues to lead the Presidential survey. In a survey conducted by the Social Weather Station commissioned by the BusinessWorld, Noynoy Aquino got the nod of 42% of the respondents. On second place is still Senator Manuel “Manny” Villar with 35%. In the current survey, Villar cuts Noynoy’s lead from 11% from the previous presidential survey to 7 percent.

On third place is former President Joseph Estrada with 13%, followed by Lakas-Kampi-CMD standard bearer Gilbert “Gibo” Teodoro on fourth place with 4%. Tied on fifth and sixth place are Senator Richard Gordon and Bro. Eddie Villanueva with 2% each.

A Precinct Counting Optical Scanner (PCOS) machine failed to transmit the data to the servers during the filed test conducted at Aguho Elementary School in Pateros on Wednesday. The COMELEC blames the defective SIM (Subscriber Identification Module) for the failure.

“The concern there was not actually the system but the use of the mobile network,” Comelec Commissioner Gregorio Larrazabal clarified. “We changed the SIM card and it was able to transmit, which is to say that the system works,” he added. However, Commissioner Larrazabal refused to identify the telecommunications company that provided the SIM card.

Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile on Monday read the report of the Senate Committee of the whole regarding the alleged C5 Road extension project controversy involving presidential aspirant Senator Manny Villar.

In the report, Senator Villar violated Section 15, Article VI of the constitution by intervening in the project for his own benefit. The Senate report seeks to censure the Senator for allegedly earning millions in the said project. Aside from censuring, the committee wanted Villar to return to the government the P6.22 billion his company allegedly “gained” through illegal means from the construction of the C-5 road extension.

The city government of Manila unveiled today in the City of Manila in time for the late president’s 77th birthday. The monument depicting a smiling Cory flashing a Laban sign in one hand and holding the 1987 Constitution in the other was erected besides her late husband Ninoy Aquino’s monument at the Rizal Park corners of P. Burgos and Roxas Boulevard in Manila.

Manila Mayor Alfredo Lim lead the unveiling ceremony together with the former president’s son (and now presidential candidate) Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III.

Thousands of farmers from different parts of the country converge in Manila to commemorate the 23rd anniversary of the infamous Mendiola Massacre that claimed the life of 13 farmers in 1987.

The march was lead by the militant peasant group, Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP), on the eve of the protest, an estimated 2,000 protesters gathered in front of the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) office in Quezon City demanding the government for a genuine reform in the agrarian sector.