{"id":136374,"date":"2017-12-05T01:31:45","date_gmt":"2017-12-05T06:31:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=136374"},"modified":"2017-12-05T01:31:45","modified_gmt":"2017-12-05T06:31:45","slug":"pdp-extends-deadline-to-deal-with-influx-of-new-members","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/12\/05\/pdp-extends-deadline-to-deal-with-influx-of-new-members\/","title":{"rendered":"PDP extends deadline to deal with influx of new members"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_111428\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-111428\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Koko_Pimentel.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-111428\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Koko_Pimentel.jpg\" alt=\"FILE: \u201cWe decided to extend the recruitment deadline to give our countrymen the chance to be a part of PDP Laban and the Change it advocates,&quot; Senate President Aquilino Pimentel III said in a press statement. (Photo: By Albert Calvelo - Public Relation and Information Bureau (original here), Senate of the Philippines, Public Domain)\" width=\"500\" height=\"499\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Koko_Pimentel.jpg 500w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Koko_Pimentel-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Koko_Pimentel-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-111428\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE: \u201cWe decided to extend the recruitment deadline to give our countrymen the chance to be a part of PDP Laban and the Change it advocates,&#8221; Senate President Aquilino Pimentel III said in a press statement. <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=49078571\">(Photo: By Albert Calvelo &#8211; Public Relation and Information Bureau (original here), Senate of the Philippines, Public Domain)<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; The ruling Partido Demokratiko Pilipino-Lakas ng Bayan (PDP Laban) will extend the deadline for accepting new members into the party to the end of February 2018 following an \u201coverwhelming\u201d number of applicants.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe decided to extend the recruitment deadline to give our countrymen the chance to be a part of PDP Laban and the Change it advocates,&#8221; Senate President Aquilino Pimentel III said in a press statement.<\/p>\n<p>Pimentel said that the party leadership made this decision since he thought it unjust to arbitrarily close the application when applications remain unacted upon.<\/p>\n<p>It may be recalled that the party earlier announced that it will stop accepting new members by the end of November of the current year.<\/p>\n<p>However, Pimentel explained that despite the extension, the plan to consolidate the party&#8217;s gains in time for the 2019 midterm elections remains.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have to deal with the influx of new members and ensure everyone in the party is aware of our ideals, goals, and values. 2019 will be an issue-based election, not a personality contest,\u201d Pimentel said.<\/p>\n<p>Pimentel said the grassroots recruitment of PDP Laban is intended to effect change in the country&#8217;s political system, like the shift to a federal system of government.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; The ruling Partido Demokratiko Pilipino-Lakas ng Bayan (PDP Laban) will extend the deadline for accepting new members into the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":111428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[32735,19203,18965,14923],"class_list":["post-136374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","tag-deadline","tag-new-members","tag-partido-demokratiko-pilipino-lakas-ng-bayan","tag-senate-president-aquilino-pimentel-iii","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136374","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=136374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136374\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}