{"id":159429,"date":"2018-04-10T01:37:36","date_gmt":"2018-04-10T05:37:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=159429"},"modified":"2018-04-10T01:37:36","modified_gmt":"2018-04-10T05:37:36","slug":"house-to-fast-track-sereno-impeachment-once-sessions-resume","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/04\/10\/house-to-fast-track-sereno-impeachment-once-sessions-resume\/","title":{"rendered":"House to fast-track Sereno impeachment once sessions resume"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_157311\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-157311\" style=\"width: 415px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/0-02-06-6d0572bf4adb8f32973559c71def2b7fe3acf38599207fae450d22b70d8df522_full_5aaf77fb0e8b53_48931993.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-157311\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/0-02-06-6d0572bf4adb8f32973559c71def2b7fe3acf38599207fae450d22b70d8df522_full_5aaf77fb0e8b53_48931993.jpg\" alt=\"PNA photo\" width=\"415\" height=\"260\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/0-02-06-6d0572bf4adb8f32973559c71def2b7fe3acf38599207fae450d22b70d8df522_full_5aaf77fb0e8b53_48931993.jpg 415w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/0-02-06-6d0572bf4adb8f32973559c71def2b7fe3acf38599207fae450d22b70d8df522_full_5aaf77fb0e8b53_48931993-300x188.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 415px) 100vw, 415px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-157311\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">PNA photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0&#8212; House Speaker Pantaleon Alvarez, responding to President Rodrigo R. Duterte&#8217;s call to fast-track the impeachment of Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno, said it would be done once Congress resumes session in May.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It will be done once we resume sessions,&#8221; Alvarez said in a text message on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Regular sessions will resume on May 14, 2018.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in the day, President Duterte called on Congress to speed up Sereno&#8217;s impeachment, as he vowed to make sure that the latter will be out of the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m putting you on notice that I\u2019m your enemy and you have to be out of the Supreme Court,\u201d Duterte said, warning that if it needs force removal of the chief magistrate, he would do it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would ask Speaker Alvarez now, kindly fast-track the impeachment. She is bad for the Philippines,\u201d Duterte said in a press interview at the Francisco Bangoy International Airport shortly before departing for the People\u2019s Republic of China to attend the Boao Forum of Asia.<\/p>\n<p>Last March 19, the House justice committee approved the six articles of impeachment against Sereno on the grounds of culpable violation of the Constitution, corruption, other high crimes, and betrayal of public trust.<\/p>\n<p>The committee report along with the articles of impeachment has already been referred to the plenary for another round of approval.<\/p>\n<p>Under the rules on impeachment, a vote of one-third, or at least 98 lawmakers, of the total number of House members is needed to send the impeachment complaint to the Senate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; House Speaker Pantaleon Alvarez, responding to President Rodrigo R. Duterte&#8217;s call to fast-track the impeachment of Chief Justice Maria &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":157311,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[11118,12230,49484],"class_list":["post-159429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ph","tag-house-of-representatives","tag-pantaleon-alvarez","tag-sereno-impeachment","mauthors-filane-mikee-cervantes","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159429","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=159429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159429\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/157311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}