{"id":163969,"date":"2018-05-17T05:31:24","date_gmt":"2018-05-17T09:31:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=163969"},"modified":"2018-05-17T05:31:24","modified_gmt":"2018-05-17T09:31:24","slug":"palace-downplays-senators-appeal-over-phs-icc-withdrawal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/05\/17\/palace-downplays-senators-appeal-over-phs-icc-withdrawal\/","title":{"rendered":"Palace downplays senators&#8217; appeal over PH\u2019s ICC withdrawal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Malaca\u00f1ang tells minority senators \u201cgood luck\u201d in their appeal contesting the Philippines&#8217; membership withdrawal in the International Criminal Court (ICC).<\/p>\n<p>Senators Leila De Lima, Risa Hontiveros, Franklin Drilon, Francis Pangilinan, Paolo Benigno &#8220;Bam&#8221; Aquino IV and Antonio Trillanes IV asked the Supreme Court (SC)\u00a0on Wednesday\u00a0to declare the country\u2019s withdrawal in the ICC as \u201cinvalid\u201d due to the Senate&#8217;s absence of approval.<\/p>\n<p>But Presidential spokesperson Harry Roque downplayed this, saying the president has the power to quit the country\u2019s membership in the ICC sans Senate support, as the latter only has a hand in approving international agreements but not in terminating.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The only requirement is when a treaty can become valid as part of the laws of the land and that is Senate concurrence. There is no requirement if we decide to exit in a treaty,&#8221; Roque said.<\/p>\n<p>He added that when it comes to international policy, the Chief Executive \u201cremains the chief architect.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>DAILY NEWS ROUND UP FOR 05\/ 17 \/18<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Malaca\u00f1ang tells minority senators \u201cgood luck\u201d in their appeal contesting the Philippines&#8217; membership withdrawal in the International Criminal Court (ICC). &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":[],"class_list":["post-163969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-uncategorized","mauthors-ro-angelica-equio","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163969","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=163969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163969\/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=163969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}