{"id":115130,"date":"2017-08-30T23:21:21","date_gmt":"2017-08-31T03:21:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=115130"},"modified":"2017-08-30T23:21:21","modified_gmt":"2017-08-31T03:21:21","slug":"duterte-can-question-ombudsman-term-in-court-drilon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/08\/30\/duterte-can-question-ombudsman-term-in-court-drilon\/","title":{"rendered":"Duterte can question Ombudsman term in court: Drilon"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_92208\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-92208\" style=\"width: 512px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/1173676_663634760332782_2041355589_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-92208\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/1173676_663634760332782_2041355589_n.jpg\" alt=\"If President Rodrigo Duterte is really serious about questioning the term of Ombudsman Conchita Carpio-Morales, the matter must be brought to court, a senator said Wednesday. (Photo: Ombudsman Conchita Carpio-Morales\/Facebook)\" width=\"512\" height=\"345\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/1173676_663634760332782_2041355589_n.jpg 512w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/1173676_663634760332782_2041355589_n-300x202.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-92208\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">If President Rodrigo Duterte is really serious about questioning the term of Ombudsman Conchita Carpio-Morales, the matter must be brought to court, a senator said Wednesday. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/OmbudsmanPHgov\/photos\/a.222808047748791.67836.222807994415463\/663634760332782\/?type=1&amp;theater\">Photo<\/a>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/OmbudsmanPHgov\/\">Ombudsman Conchita Carpio-Morales\/Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; If President Rodrigo Duterte is really serious about questioning the term of Ombudsman Conchita Carpio-Morales, the matter must be brought to court, a senator said Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Senate Minority Leader Franklin Drilon made this remark after Duterte, in a speech, said that Morales is not entitled to a full seven-year term since she was merely serving the remaining term of her predecessor, Merceditas Guitierrez, who resigned her post in April 2011 before her impeachment trial.<\/p>\n<p>In the same speech, Duterte also slammed Morales for her &#8220;selective justice&#8221; saying that her office handled cases of lawmakers implicated in the multi-billion peso pork barrel scam slowly.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf the President really believes that there is a question on the term of office, the Solicitor General can file a quo-warranto case before the court, meaning he will question the continued discharge of the functions of the office,\u201d Drilon said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe SolGen is the one authorized to file a quo-warranto &#8212; not every citizen of Tom, Dick, and Harry can file a quo-warranto case. It has to be the SolGen,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Drilon, however, said that to him, Carpio was indeed entitled to a full seven-year term.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs distinguished from other constitutional officials, where it is expressly stated that the appointee who assumes the unexpired portion of the term will only serve the unexpired portion &#8212; the COA (Commission on Audit), the Comelec (Commission on Elections), for example. There is no such expressed provision on the Office of the Ombudsman,\u201d the senator said.<\/p>\n<p>Morales was appointed in 2010 by then President Benigno Aquino III.<\/p>\n<p>On June 29, lawyer Rey Nathaniel Ifurung filed a petition before the Supreme Court questioning Morales\u2019s stay as the Ombudsman, saying she should have vacated her post during the expiration of Gutierrez\u2019s term in February 2015.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; If President Rodrigo Duterte is really serious about questioning the term of Ombudsman Conchita Carpio-Morales, the matter must be &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":92208,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,16,95],"tags":[2797,2444,22456],"class_list":["post-115130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-news","category-news-ph","tag-ombudsman","tag-rodrigo-duterte","tag-term-in-court","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115130","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=115130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115130\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}