{"id":154767,"date":"2018-02-28T18:27:45","date_gmt":"2018-02-28T23:27:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=154767"},"modified":"2018-02-28T18:27:45","modified_gmt":"2018-02-28T23:27:45","slug":"osg-urged-to-check-validity-of-sereno-appointment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/02\/28\/osg-urged-to-check-validity-of-sereno-appointment\/","title":{"rendered":"OSG urged to check validity of Sereno appointment"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_154768\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-154768\" style=\"width: 415px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Sereno.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-154768\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Sereno.jpg\" alt=\"House Speaker Pantaleon Alvarez on Wednesday said the Office of the Solicitor-General should look into the possibility of questioning the validity of the appointment of Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno before the Supreme Court. (PNA photo)\" width=\"415\" height=\"260\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Sereno.jpg 415w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Sereno-300x188.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 415px) 100vw, 415px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-154768\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">House Speaker Pantaleon Alvarez on Wednesday said the Office of the Solicitor-General should look into the possibility of questioning the validity of the appointment of Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno before the Supreme Court. (PNA photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; House Speaker Pantaleon Alvarez on Wednesday said the Office of the Solicitor-General should look into the possibility of questioning the validity of the appointment of Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno before the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n<p>Alvarez made the statement after it was disclosed in an impeachment hearing that Sereno was &#8220;unfit&#8221; for the top magistrate post based on her psychiatric test results.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Kung ako tatanungin mo, magpa-file ako ng case sa Supreme Court, kukwestiyunin ko yung validity mismo ng appointment&#8230; Tingin ko yung pinaka-logical dun ay yung Office of the Solicitor General, (If you would ask me, I would file a case before the Supreme Court questioning the validity of her appointment&#8230; I think the most logical [to initiate the case] is the Office of the Solicitor General),&#8221; Alvarez said.<\/p>\n<p>Alvarez said if Sereno&#8217;s appointment was deemed invalid, then the impeachment would be &#8220;moot and academic&#8221; since &#8220;there is nobody to impeach in the first place.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Impeachment presupposes a valid appointment. So halimbawa hindi ka nag-comply doon sa requisites na kinakailangan (for example, you did not comply with the requisites needed) for that position, is the appointment valid?&#8221; Alvarez said.<\/p>\n<p>The House of Representatives justice committee is set to vote next week if there is probable cause in the impeachment complaint lodged against Sereno.<\/p>\n<p>The House justice panel has wrapped up its impeachment deliberations Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; House Speaker Pantaleon Alvarez on Wednesday said the Office of the Solicitor-General should look into the possibility of questioning &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":154768,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[6408,15694,12230],"class_list":["post-154767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","tag-impeachment","tag-maria-lourdes-sereno","tag-pantaleon-alvarez","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154767","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=154767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154767\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}