{"id":164051,"date":"2018-05-18T05:32:17","date_gmt":"2018-05-18T09:32:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=164051"},"modified":"2018-05-21T03:28:14","modified_gmt":"2018-05-21T07:28:14","slug":"sotto-on-heading-senate-i-will-not-allow-it-to-be-degraded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/05\/18\/sotto-on-heading-senate-i-will-not-allow-it-to-be-degraded\/","title":{"rendered":"Sotto on heading Senate: I will not allow it to be degraded"},"content":{"rendered":"
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FILE: \u201cI will not allow it to be degraded, trampled, attacked, or unfairly criticized without responding fairly or violently if necessary,\u201d Sotto said in a statement according to a Rappler report on May 18, Friday. (Photo<\/a> by Joseph Vidal via Senate of the Philippines\/Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Senate Majority Leader Vicente \u201cTito\u201d Sotto III vowed to not let the upper house be degraded as he is elected as its new head.<\/p>\n

\u201cI will not allow it to be degraded, trampled, attacked, or unfairly criticized without responding fairly or violently if necessary,\u201d Sotto said in a statement according to a Rappler report on May 18, Friday.<\/p>\n

Majority of the leaders in the upper chamber signed a resolution expressing their sense to re-organize the leadership of the Senate, electing him as the new Senate President on Thursday.<\/p>\n

\u201cBy a majority vote of all the senators, Senator Vicente C. Sotto III is hereby elected as the new Senate President to discharge the duties and powers granted to him by the rules of the Senate,\u201d the resolution read.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is hereby resolved by a majority vote of all the Senate to express its sense to reorganize its leadership and hereby electing Senator Vicente C. Sotto III as the new Senate President,\u201d it added.<\/p>\n

The Senators who signed the said resolution were Juan Edgardo Angara, Nancy Binay, Joseph Victor \u201cJV\u201d Ejercito, Francis \u201cChiz\u201d Escudero, Sherwin \u201cWin\u201d Gatchalian, Richard \u201cDick\u201d Gordon, Gregorio Honasan II, Panfilo \u201cPing\u201d Lacson, Loren Legarda, Manny Pacquiao, Ralph Recto, Joel Villanueva, Cynthia Villar, and Juan Miguel Zubiri.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, outgoing Senate President Aquilino “Koko” Pimentel III, Senator Grace Poe, and Sotto did not sign.<\/p>\n

Pimentel is the president of the ruling party \u2013 Partido Demokratiko Pilipino \u2013 Lakas ng Bayan (PDP-Laban).<\/p>\n

Section 16(1), Article VI of the Philippine Constitution mandates the Senate to elect its President by a majority vote of all its members.<\/p>\n

The Palace through Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque, Jr. hoped that this leadership re-organization will not affect the ties.<\/p>\n

\u201cNaniniwala ang Palasyo na kahit sino pong mahalal na <\/em>Senate President \u2013 at ang balita po ay<\/em> Senator Tito Sotto \u2013 ay napakalapit din pong alyado ni<\/em> Senator Tito Sotto, wala pong magbabago sa malapit na samahan at kooperasyon na ngayon ay mayroon sa panig ng Senado at ng<\/em> Malaca\u00f1ang (The Palace believes that whoever is elected to be the Senate President \u2013 news say it is Senator Tito Sotto, a close ally, nothing will change in the close relationship and cooperation between the Senate and Malaca\u00f1ang),\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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