{"id":114109,"date":"2017-08-25T21:03:06","date_gmt":"2017-08-26T01:03:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=114109"},"modified":"2017-08-25T21:03:06","modified_gmt":"2017-08-26T01:03:06","slug":"sk-can-help-anti-drug-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/08\/25\/sk-can-help-anti-drug-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"SK can help anti-drug campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_100090\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-100090\" style=\"width: 415px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Bam.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-100090\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Bam.jpg\" alt=\"FILE: A senator on Friday said the youth can have the opportunity to help the government\u2019s anti-drug campaign if the upcoming Sangguniang Kabataan (SK) elections should push through this October. (PNA photo)\" width=\"415\" height=\"260\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Bam.jpg 415w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Bam-300x188.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 415px) 100vw, 415px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-100090\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE: A senator on Friday said the youth can have the opportunity to help the government\u2019s anti-drug campaign if the upcoming Sangguniang Kabataan (SK) elections should push through this October. (PNA photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA\u2014<\/strong>\u00a0A senator on Friday said the youth can have the opportunity to help the government\u2019s anti-drug campaign if the upcoming Sangguniang Kabataan (SK) elections should push through this October.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2026Let&#8217;s give the youth the opportunity to help solve the drug problem and other issues in their community. Let&#8217;s encourage them through the SK,\u201d Senator Paolo Benigno Aquino IV said in a press statement.<\/p>\n<p>Aquino, who has expressed his desire not to postpone both SK and barangay (village) elections, earlier suggested to his colleagues in the Senate to look into the possibility of holding a separate SK polls in October this year if barangay elections would be postponed.<\/p>\n<p>He explained that the implementation of the SK Reform Act (Republic Act 10742) is long overdue.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe last SK election was seven years ago. Since then, we\u2019ve reformed the SK and even included an anti-political dynasty provision. I would personally want to see the SK elections push through to empower our youth leaders,\u201d said Aquino, a former National Youth Commission (NYC) chairman.<\/p>\n<p>NYC chair Aiza Seguerra earlier said that although she understood the reason to postpone the SK elections, youths must be given a chance to have more representation in government.<\/p>\n<p>Barangay and SK elections are supposed to be held this October, but the House Committee on Suffrage and Electoral Reforms voted last week to have it postponed until May 2018.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u2014\u00a0A senator on Friday said the youth can have the opportunity to help the government\u2019s anti-drug campaign if the upcoming &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":100090,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[14815,6834,2753],"class_list":["post-114109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ph","tag-anti-drug-campaign","tag-sangguniang-kabataan","tag-senator-paolo-benigno-bam-aquino-iv","mauthors-azer-n-parocha","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114109","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=114109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114109\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}