{"id":173314,"date":"2018-07-26T02:01:08","date_gmt":"2018-07-26T06:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=173314"},"modified":"2018-07-26T02:01:31","modified_gmt":"2018-07-26T06:01:31","slug":"senate-approval-charter-change-year-slim-sotto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/07\/26\/senate-approval-charter-change-year-slim-sotto\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate approval of Charter change this year \u2018very slim\u2019: Sotto"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_129761\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-129761\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/22008380_1640369285987346_4707812732207777442_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-129761\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/22008380_1640369285987346_4707812732207777442_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/22008380_1640369285987346_4707812732207777442_n.jpg 960w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/22008380_1640369285987346_4707812732207777442_n-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/22008380_1640369285987346_4707812732207777442_n-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-129761\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u201cLet me say that perhaps the chances are very slim,\u201d Sotto said in an interview at the Senate. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/senateph\/photos\/a.815377408486542.1073741828.749071305117153\/1640369285987346\/?type=3&amp;amp;theater\">(File photo by Joseph Vidal via Senate of the Philippines\/Facebook)<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0&#8212; Senate President Vicente \u201cTito\u201d Sotto III on Wednesday said the chances of Charter change (Cha-cha) being approved at the Senate this year are \u201cvery slim,\u201d given that the proposed shift to federalism is not among the priorities of all senators.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet me say that perhaps the chances are very slim,\u201d Sotto said in an interview at the Senate.<\/p>\n<p>The Senate President said in the all-members\u2019 caucus on Tuesday, each member of the Senate was asked to submit a maximum of three priority bills so that the Senate can sit down with the House and the Executive department to keep it together.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNone of the submissions contained the Cha-cha. You take it from that,\u201d Sotto said.<\/p>\n<p>However, he clarified that the Senate is not closing its doors on Cha-cha, only that the chamber would not be rushing the deliberations on the matter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI will speak for the entire Senate.. we have agreed to let the Senate Committee on Constitutional Amendments and Revision of Codes come up with the committee report and we will discuss it then,\u201d Sotto said.<\/p>\n<p>He said the Senate will not be working under any deadline.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Sotto said they welcome newly-installed House Speaker Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo\u2019s pronouncements that she will not push for \u201cno elections&#8221; (no-el) in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>The no-el scenario was earlier floated by Arroyo\u2019s predecessor, former Speaker Pantaleon Alvarez.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat&#8217;s good if that is the case, because the majority of the members of the Senate, if not all members of the Senate&#8230;is not going to support a no-election scenario in 2019, no matter who the Speaker is,\u201d Sotto said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; Senate President Vicente \u201cTito\u201d Sotto III on Wednesday said the chances of Charter change (Cha-cha) being approved at the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":129761,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-173314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-jose-cielito-reganit","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173314","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=173314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173314\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}