{"id":13808,"date":"2014-06-05T17:56:24","date_gmt":"2014-06-05T09:56:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=13808"},"modified":"2025-01-14T02:14:51","modified_gmt":"2025-01-14T07:14:51","slug":"plebiscite-for-charter-change-can-be-held-either-2015-or-2016-belmonte","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/06\/05\/plebiscite-for-charter-change-can-be-held-either-2015-or-2016-belmonte\/","title":{"rendered":"Plebiscite for Charter Change can be held either 2015 or 2016 &#8211; Belmonte"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"color: #000000;\">\n<figure id=\"attachment_13753\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13753\" style=\"width: 196px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/sonny-belmonte.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13753\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/sonny-belmonte.jpg\" alt=\"Speaker Feliciano Belmonte Jr. \/ Wikipedia Photo\" width=\"196\" height=\"257\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-13753\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Speaker Feliciano Belmonte Jr. \/ Wikipedia Photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;\">MANILA &#8212; Speaker Feliciano Belmonte Jr., said he is now looking on the possibility to incorporate plebiscite with the 2016 Presidential elections without violating any law instead of spending a separate election next year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;\">Belmonte said that he is carefully studying to avoid a separate election which needs a big sum of money which we can use for other projects.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy metformin online <a href=\"https:\/\/www.delineation.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/jpg\/metformin.html\">https:\/\/www.delineation.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/jpg\/metformin.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;\">\u201cInstead of having a separate plebiscite, nag-iisip ako how we can have it ride for instance in the next election. Baka it could be a &#8212; is it legal to just make it a question in the ballot box to be checked and so forth,\u201d Belmonte told House reporters in a press conference.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy soft cialis online <a href=\"https:\/\/www.delineation.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/jpg\/soft-cialis.html\">https:\/\/www.delineation.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/jpg\/soft-cialis.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;\">Based on data gathered by the Commission on Elections (Comelec), the highest turnout of voting population participating in a particular election is during presidential elections.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;\">With this, he believes that \u201cdoing it that way it will be well discussed because a lot of people will be talking about it.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;\">The leadership is already anticipating that Cha-cha is almost a walk in the park and he can easily muster the needed three-forth votes to approved Charter Change.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;\">However, when it reaches the Senate, that\u2019s another story and he cannot speculate what will be the sentiments of the Senators.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;\">\u201cSenate President [Franklin] Drilon told me in our latest meeting that if the House can do it why can\u2019t the do it?\u201d Belmonte pointed out.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;\">Comelec Chairman Sixto Brillantes in his last appearance before the House committee on Constitutional Amendments assured committee members that needed budget for the plebiscite is already incorporated in their budget request for 2015.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;\">\u201cGanon ba. For 2015? Anyway it cannot be done in 2014 so kung merong money in 2015 then that would be good,\u201d said Belmonte as he claims that the ideal date is 2015, saying that it needs to pass the scrutiny of the Senate.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;\">When asked by reporters what cause the delay after they conducted marathon hearings, he said Davao City Rep.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy buspar online <a href=\"https:\/\/www.delineation.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/jpg\/buspar.html\">https:\/\/www.delineation.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/jpg\/buspar.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p> Mylene Garcia-Albano is out of the country.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;\">\u201cNow if she is still out of the country by next week, I will allow the senior vice chairman to take his place to make Cha-cha moving,\u201d Belmonte stressed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;\">\u201cLet&#8217;s face it, the idea that we can do anything more with it other than pass it is out. If we pass this, this is for the benefit of the next administrations. Wala na kaming magagawa dito except to make it possible for them to have the elbow room to respond to a world event,\u201d he added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;\">He even reminded that growth has shifted from the west to the east and investors are now interested to bring their money in Asia.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;\">The veteran lawmaker explained that he had meetings organized by the European Union representatives here and of companies from the European Union. Another one he said, is that US based companies are also active in the ASEAN area and \u201ca lot of them are very interested in it because what we want really is real investment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;\">\u201cHindi yung hot money that comes in and out and takes advantage of us cause when they go out they bring along profits. Gusto natin yung perang pag pumasok dito, naiiwan dito and I&#8217;m referring of course to foreign direct investments (FDIs) which would be creating jobs and also creating economic opportunities for the country,\u201d he emphasized.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA &#8212; Speaker Feliciano Belmonte Jr., said he is now looking on the possibility to incorporate plebiscite with the 2016 &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":13753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[4735,4734,4733],"class_list":["post-13808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ph","tag-belmonte","tag-charter-change","tag-plebiscite","mauthors-philippines-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13808","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=13808"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":284060,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13808\/revisions\/284060"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}