{"id":144633,"date":"2018-01-08T21:52:11","date_gmt":"2018-01-09T02:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=144633"},"modified":"2018-01-08T21:52:11","modified_gmt":"2018-01-09T02:52:11","slug":"congress-urged-to-present-timetable-for-federalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/01\/08\/congress-urged-to-present-timetable-for-federalism\/","title":{"rendered":"Congress urged to present timetable for federalism"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_144634\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-144634\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/23905365_1500437773405045_6067559634296705988_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-144634\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/23905365_1500437773405045_6067559634296705988_n.jpg\" alt=\"Gatchalian stressed that he is against the proposal to postpone or cancel the scheduled May 2019 national and local elections. (Photo: Senator Win Gatchalian\/Facebook)\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/23905365_1500437773405045_6067559634296705988_n.jpg 960w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/23905365_1500437773405045_6067559634296705988_n-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/23905365_1500437773405045_6067559634296705988_n-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-144634\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gatchalian stressed that he is against the proposal to postpone or cancel the scheduled May 2019 national and local elections.<br \/>(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/WinGatchalian74\/photos\/a.417229265059240.1073741843.386570178125149\/1500437773405045\/?type=3&amp;theater\">Photo:<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/WinGatchalian74\/\">Senator Win Gatchalian\/Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong> \u2014 Both chambers of the Congress should present a \u201crealistic and workable\u201d timetable to get the push for a shift to a federal form of government, a senator urged Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Senator Sherwin Gatchalian made this call noting that he would personally want to look into details noting that the idea of federalism being floated over the news is \u201cbroad.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need to be clear with the details and not rush the process,\u201d Gatchalian, an ally of President Rodrigo Duterte, said.<\/p>\n<p>Gatchalian, meanwhile, stressed that he is against the proposal to postpone or cancel the scheduled May 2019 national and local elections.<\/p>\n<p>House Speaker Pantaleon Alvarez earlier floated the idea of a no-election scenario should federalism pushes through.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The democratic functions of our government should not be put on hold for any reason, not even for a charter change. The May 2019 elections must go ahead as scheduled,&#8221; Gatchalian said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe should observe checks and balances as co-equal chambers of Congress, and therefore separate voting on the draft Constitution should no longer be put into question,\u201d Gatchalian said.<\/p>\n<p>He also urged both chambers of the Congress to respect each other\u2019s independence and separately start with their own deliberations on the proposed amendments.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe should observe checks and balances as co-equal chambers of Congress, and therefore separate voting on the draft Constitution should no longer be put into question,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA \u2014 Both chambers of the Congress should present a \u201crealistic and workable\u201d timetable to get the push for a &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":144634,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,95],"tags":[42333,38640,14359],"class_list":["post-144633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-news-ph","tag-congress-urged-to-present-timetable-for-federalism","tag-federal-form-of-government","tag-senator-sherwin-gatchalian","mauthors-azer-parrocha","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144633","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=144633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144633\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}