{"id":134613,"date":"2017-11-28T03:12:48","date_gmt":"2017-11-28T08:12:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=134613"},"modified":"2017-11-28T03:12:59","modified_gmt":"2017-11-28T08:12:59","slug":"congress-cant-say-no-if-duterte-wants-revolutionary-govt-alvarez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/11\/28\/congress-cant-say-no-if-duterte-wants-revolutionary-govt-alvarez\/","title":{"rendered":"Congress can\u2019t say no if Duterte wants revolutionary gov\u2019t \u2014 Alvarez"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_105896\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-105896\" style=\"width: 958px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/House-Speaker-Pantaleon-Alvarez.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-105896\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/House-Speaker-Pantaleon-Alvarez.jpg\" alt=\"FILE: House Speaker Pantaleon Alvarez on Tuesday said Congress could not do anything if President Rodrigo Duterte declares a revolutionary government. (Photo: Speaker Pantaleon Alvarez\/Facebook\" width=\"958\" height=\"646\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/House-Speaker-Pantaleon-Alvarez.jpg 958w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/House-Speaker-Pantaleon-Alvarez-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/House-Speaker-Pantaleon-Alvarez-768x518.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 958px) 100vw, 958px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-105896\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE: House Speaker Pantaleon Alvarez on Tuesday said Congress could not do anything if President Rodrigo Duterte declares a revolutionary government. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/speakeralvarez\/photos\/a.669182656622973.1073741855.558694637671776\/669183016622937\/?type=3&amp;theater\">Photo<\/a>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/speakeralvarez\/\">Speaker Pantaleon Alvarez\/Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>House Speaker Pantaleon Alvarez on Tuesday said Congress could not do anything if President Rodrigo Duterte declares a revolutionary government.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For me, the President has spoken about [declaring a revolutionary government] for a long time. And on the basis of the 2016 election results, he got a huge mandate,\u201d Alvarez said in a press conference.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat means the people are in favor of it,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>In the May 2016 elections, Duterte garnered more than 16 million votes, at least 6 million votes over his closest rival Manuel Roxas II.<\/p>\n<p>Alvarez pointed out that as early as the campaign season before the presidential elections in May 2016, the President had already raised the possibility of a revolutionary government.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you would recall, during the campaign, the President already said that, so that\u2019s not news. He said, \u2018if I don\u2019t achieve the change I want for the country because of many obstacles, then I will exercise that option of a revolutionary government,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Alvarez and House Majority Leader Rodolfo Fari\u00f1as apparently belittled the threat of a revolutionary government, jesting about it in the news conference.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDuring the campaign, he even threatened to abolish Congress,\u201d Fari\u00f1as chimed in.<\/p>\n<p>Alvarez, for his part, said, \u201cSo what can we do about it? It\u2019s not like we can say \u2018no\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The house speaker jested that they would actually benefit if the President abolished the Congress under a revolutionary government.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s fine for me. I won&#8217;t have a job anymore. Majority Leader and I will just go around. A road trip sounds fun,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House Speaker Pantaleon Alvarez on Tuesday said Congress could not do anything if President Rodrigo Duterte declares a revolutionary government. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":105896,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,16,95],"tags":[1983,12230,22463,2444],"class_list":["post-134613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-news","category-news-ph","tag-congress","tag-pantaleon-alvarez","tag-revolutionary-government","tag-rodrigo-duterte","mauthors-joanna-belle-deala","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134613","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=134613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134613\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}