{"id":112865,"date":"2017-08-18T06:37:45","date_gmt":"2017-08-18T10:37:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=112865"},"modified":"2017-08-20T21:22:38","modified_gmt":"2017-08-21T01:22:38","slug":"after-rejection-taguiwalo-asks-ca-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/08\/18\/after-rejection-taguiwalo-asks-ca-why\/","title":{"rendered":"After rejection, Taguiwalo asks CA: Why?"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_84299\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-84299\" style=\"width: 280px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/14479623_267530756980090_3435704801982959750_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-84299\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/14479623_267530756980090_3435704801982959750_n.jpg\" alt=\"FILE PHOTO\/Former Social Welfare Secretary Judy Taguiwalo (Photo: DSWD Sec. Judy M. Taguiwalo \/ Facebook)\" width=\"280\" height=\"280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/14479623_267530756980090_3435704801982959750_n.jpg 280w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/14479623_267530756980090_3435704801982959750_n-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 280px) 100vw, 280px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-84299\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE PHOTO\/Former Social Welfare Secretary Judy Taguiwalo (Photo: DSWD Sec. Judy M. Taguiwalo \/ Facebook)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Former Social Welfare and Development Secretary Judy Taguiwalo said she wants the Commission on Appointments (CA) to clarify the reason for the rejection of her nomination.<\/p>\n<p>Taguiwalo said in interviews that she is worthy of \u201ccandor and frankness\u201d from the commission members who voted against her confirmation on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI did not get any reason for my rejection so I said, at least they give me a reason as a going away gift,\u201d Taguiwalo said in Filipino over DZMM.<\/p>\n<p>CA rejected on Wednesday the nomination of Taguiwalo as the secretary of the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD). She is the third appointee of President Rodrigo Duterte thumbed down by the congressional body, after the rejection of former Foreign Affairs secretary Perfecto Yasay Jr. and Environment secretary Regina Lopez.<\/p>\n<p>Out of 25 CA members, 13 voted to reject Taguiwalo.<\/p>\n<p>The former secretary said that CA should be honest, given her one year of service in DSWD.<\/p>\n<p>She even added that CA took efforts in explaining their reasons for the rejection of then Environment secretary Lopez.<\/p>\n<p>Confidential appointees at the Office of the Secretary will be leaving with Taguiwalo. However, the five undersecretaries appointed by Duterte will remain since they are co-terminus with their appointing authority.<\/p>\n<p>After Taguiwalo\u2019s rejection, Vice President Leni Robredo stressed the need for transparency on the commission\u2019s deliberations.<\/p>\n<p>Robredo said reason for rejecting a presidential nominee should be explained properly.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>Siguro mas gugustuhin sana natin na mas<\/em> transparent<em> din iyong<\/em> process, <em>mas alam natin kung bakit na<\/em>-reject,\u201d Robredo said.<\/p>\n<p>Malaca\u00f1ang has yet to appoint an officer-in-charge to lead the department.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Social Welfare and Development Secretary Judy Taguiwalo said she wants the Commission on Appointments (CA) to clarify the reason &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":84299,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[10123,21488],"class_list":["post-112865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","tag-robredo","tag-taguiwalo-ca","mauthors-carlo-jacob-molina","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112865\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}