{"id":12108,"date":"2014-05-27T16:36:19","date_gmt":"2014-05-27T08:36:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=12108"},"modified":"2014-05-27T16:36:19","modified_gmt":"2014-05-27T08:36:19","slug":"defense-agreement-between-phl-and-u-s-is-constitutional-says-palace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/05\/27\/defense-agreement-between-phl-and-u-s-is-constitutional-says-palace\/","title":{"rendered":"Defense agreement between PHL and U.S. is constitutional, says Palace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/US-Philippines.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12247\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/US-Philippines.jpg\" alt=\"US Philippines\" width=\"1000\" height=\"655\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/US-Philippines.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/US-Philippines-300x196.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>MANILA &#8212; Malacanang on Monday reaffirmed the constitutionality of the Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement (EDCA) between the Philippines and the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Presidential Spokesman Edwin Lacierda told reporters during a press briefing that the Palace has anticipated that there will be \u201cvoices not in agreement\u201d with the signing of the EDCA.<\/p>\n<p>Lacierda was referring to a number of petitioners who are contesting the validity of the EDCA at the Supreme Court. Among them are former Senators Rene Saguisag and Wigberto Tanada, former University of the Philippines President Francisco Nemenzo Jr., former President of St. Scholastica\u2019s College Sr. Mary John Mananzan, former UP College of Law Dean Pacifico Agabin, and former Congressman Teddy Casi\u00f1o.<\/p>\n<p>The group on Monday filed a temporary restraining order before the High Tribunal to stop the implementation of the agreement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are prepared to defend the constitutionality of the agreement,\u201d Lacierda said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe believe that the government can ably support and defend the position in case a petition is filed &#8212; or if a petition has already been filed &#8212; before the Supreme Court,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>EDCA was signed last April 28 by Defense Secretary Voltaire Gazmin and U.S. Ambassador to the Philippines Philip Goldberg.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA &#8212; Malacanang on Monday reaffirmed the constitutionality of the Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement (EDCA) between the Philippines and the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":12247,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,95],"tags":[4103,536,4104,343,406,352],"class_list":["post-12108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news-ph","tag-agreement","tag-america","tag-constitutional","tag-philippines","tag-united-states","tag-us","mauthors-philippines-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12108","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12108\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}