{"id":17835,"date":"2014-07-03T10:14:56","date_gmt":"2014-07-03T02:14:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=17835"},"modified":"2014-07-03T10:14:56","modified_gmt":"2014-07-03T02:14:56","slug":"vp-binay-calls-for-support-to-president-amid-impeachment-calls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/07\/03\/vp-binay-calls-for-support-to-president-amid-impeachment-calls\/","title":{"rendered":"VP Binay calls for support to President amid impeachment calls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"color: #000000;\">\n<figure id=\"attachment_11244\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11244\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Jejomar-Binay.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11244\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Jejomar-Binay-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Vice President Jejomar Binay. Photo courtesy of Jojo Binay on Facebook.\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Jejomar-Binay-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Jejomar-Binay.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11244\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vice President Jejomar Binay. Photo courtesy of Jojo Binay on Facebook.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;\">MANILA \u2013 Describing impeachment calls unproductive and divisive, Vice President Jejomar Binay on Wednesday urged the public to support President Benigno Aquino III.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;\">&#8220;President Aquino is our leader duly elected by our people. He has the people&#8217;s mandate and we should support him. This is why talks of impeaching President Aquino is both unproductive and divisive,&#8221; Binay said in a press statement.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;\">The Vice President made this appeal amid impeachment calls triggered by the Supreme Court (SC) decision declaring parts of the Disbursement Acceleration Program (DAP) unconstitutional.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;\">Binay called for sobriety and an end to partisanship and speculation on the extent of liabilities of government officials.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;\">&#8220;I would instead encourage all parties to set aside partisan political acts and just accept and respect the ruling of the SC,\u201d Binay said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;\">As to the accountabilities of other government officials, Binay appealed to let the effects of the SC decision take its course.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;\">\u201dAs of now none of us has read the decision in its entirety so any discussion on accountabilities at this point on is purely speculative,&#8221; he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;\">The Vice President also appealed to all parties &#8220;to work together and advance the welfare of our people, which should be our overriding goal.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA \u2013 Describing impeachment calls unproductive and divisive, Vice President Jejomar Binay on Wednesday urged the public to support President &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":11244,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[6304,4032,1744,4608],"class_list":["post-17835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ph","tag-impeachment-calls","tag-president","tag-support","tag-vp-binay","mauthors-jelly-f-musico","mauthors-philippines-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17835","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17835\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}