{"id":156333,"date":"2018-03-13T04:51:18","date_gmt":"2018-03-13T08:51:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=156333"},"modified":"2018-03-13T04:51:18","modified_gmt":"2018-03-13T08:51:18","slug":"aiza-seguerra-quits-as-nyc-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/03\/13\/aiza-seguerra-quits-as-nyc-chief\/","title":{"rendered":"Aiza Seguerra quits as NYC chief"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_156334\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-156334\" style=\"width: 415px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/aiza_5aa77f5e52ad49_50432143.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-156334\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/aiza_5aa77f5e52ad49_50432143.jpg\" alt=\"(PNA Photo)\" width=\"415\" height=\"260\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/aiza_5aa77f5e52ad49_50432143.jpg 415w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/aiza_5aa77f5e52ad49_50432143-300x188.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 415px) 100vw, 415px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-156334\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(PNA Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong> \u2014 Malaca\u00f1ang on Tuesday confirmed that National Youth Commission (NYC) Chairperson Carina &#8220;Aiza&#8221; Seguerra has resigned from her post.<\/p>\n<p>Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque said the Office of the Executive Secretary has received Seguerra\u2019s resignation letter.<\/p>\n<p>Roque said that although he has not yet spoken to the NYC chairperson, he said that her letter has already reached the President.<\/p>\n<p>In a Facebook post, the former youth commission chair said Duterte has already accepted his resignation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I met with our dear President last March 5th to tender my resignation as NYC Chairperson. I coordinated with his office because I wanted to personally tell him my reason. Knowing how social media can exaggerate or twist the truth, I wanted to make sure that he&#8217;s going to hear it from me. He was very understanding and supportive of my decision,&#8221; Seguerra said.<\/p>\n<p>Seguerra was appointed as NYC chairperson in August 2016.<\/p>\n<p>She, together with her wife Film Development Council of the Philippines chairman Liza Di\u00f1o-Seguerra, had campaigned for Duterte during the May 2016 national elections.<\/p>\n<p>Seguerra has continuously pushed for Sangguniang Kabataan (youth) elections to push through noting that youth must be given a chance to have more representation in government.<em><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA \u2014 Malaca\u00f1ang on Tuesday confirmed that National Youth Commission (NYC) Chairperson Carina &#8220;Aiza&#8221; Seguerra has resigned from her post. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":156334,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[7368,48145,48148,48147,48146],"class_list":["post-156333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ph","tag-aiza-seguerra","tag-ice-seguerra","tag-national-youth-commission","tag-nyc-chairperson","tag-nyc-chief","mauthors-azer-parrocha","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156333","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=156333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156333\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}