{"id":145516,"date":"2018-01-11T04:43:12","date_gmt":"2018-01-11T09:43:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=145516"},"modified":"2018-01-11T04:43:12","modified_gmt":"2018-01-11T09:43:12","slug":"lacson-urges-pacquiao-to-not-rush-vote-on-death-penalty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/01\/11\/lacson-urges-pacquiao-to-not-rush-vote-on-death-penalty\/","title":{"rendered":"Lacson urges Pacquiao to not rush vote on death penalty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Senator Panfilo Lacson advised Senator Manny Pacquiao to give more time in learning the stance of his colleagues in the proposed death penalty bill, instead of rushing its votes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf I were Senator Pacquiao, I will first test the waters on how many votes I could get. Would it be enough to pass the death penalty bill?\u201d Lacson said in a press briefing.<\/p>\n<p>Lacson added that in his informal talks with other senators, it appears that there are slim chances in passing the proposed measure.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBased on discussions, informally, others find it hard\u2026 It\u2019s really hard to get the required number (of votes) to pass the death penalty bill here in the Senate,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Lacson also said that Pacquiao rushing the votes would only waste the Senate&#8217;s time because instead of tackling bills that would get approved, they will end up tackling the ones that are unlikely to be passed.<\/p>\n<p>Pacquiao as subcommittee chairman has been designated to lead the discussions on the death penalty bill.<\/p>\n<p><strong>(DAILY NEWS ROUND UP FOR 01\/ 11 \/ 18)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senator Panfilo Lacson advised Senator Manny Pacquiao to give more time in learning the stance of his colleagues in the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":114184,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[14507,803,2990],"class_list":["post-145516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-uncategorized","tag-death-penalty-bill","tag-manny-pacquiao","tag-panfilo-lacson","mauthors-ro-angelica-equio","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145516","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=145516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145516\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}