{"id":123009,"date":"2017-10-11T04:47:49","date_gmt":"2017-10-11T08:47:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=123009"},"modified":"2017-10-11T04:47:49","modified_gmt":"2017-10-11T08:47:49","slug":"arroyo-joins-pdp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/10\/11\/arroyo-joins-pdp\/","title":{"rendered":"Arroyo joins PDP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_86423\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-86423\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/800px-Gloria_Macapagal_Arroyo_WEF_2009.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-86423\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/800px-Gloria_Macapagal_Arroyo_WEF_2009.jpg\" alt=\"\u201cMy joining the PDP is to consolidate support for the President. It is a matter of course as we have been talking about this for quite some time,\u201d Arroyo said in a statement. (Photo by World Economic Forum ([1]) [CC BY-SA 2.0)\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/800px-Gloria_Macapagal_Arroyo_WEF_2009.jpg 800w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/800px-Gloria_Macapagal_Arroyo_WEF_2009-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/800px-Gloria_Macapagal_Arroyo_WEF_2009-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-86423\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File%3AGloria_Macapagal_Arroyo_WEF_2009.jpg\">\u201cMy joining the PDP is to consolidate support for the President. It is a matter of course as we have been talking about this for quite some time,\u201d Arroyo said in a statement. (Photo by World Economic Forum ([1]) [CC BY-SA 2.0)<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u2014 Former president and now Pampanga Rep. Gloria Macapagal Arroyo jumped ship to the ruling Partido Demokratiko Pilipino (PDP) party on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Arroyo, who belonged to the Lakas-Christian Muslim Democrats (Lakas-Christian Muslim Democrats), took her oath before PDP Secretary-General and House Speaker Pantaleon Alvarez.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy joining the PDP is to consolidate support for the President. It is a matter of course as we have been talking about this for quite some time,\u201d Arroyo said in a statement.<br \/>\nAside from Arroyo, Bohol Rep. Arthur Yap also took his oath as a new PDP member.<\/p>\n<p>The number of PDP members in the House of Representatives so far stands at 123.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u2014 Former president and now Pampanga Rep. Gloria Macapagal Arroyo jumped ship to the ruling Partido Demokratiko Pilipino (PDP) party &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":86423,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,95],"tags":[27221,27220,27222],"class_list":["post-123009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-news-ph","tag-arroyo-joins-pdp","tag-former-president-and-now-pampanga-rep-gloria-macapagal-arroyo","tag-partido-demokratiko-pilipino-pdp","mauthors-filane-mikee-cervantes","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123009","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=123009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123009\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}