{"id":18014,"date":"2014-07-03T20:45:29","date_gmt":"2014-07-03T12:45:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=18014"},"modified":"2014-07-03T21:28:27","modified_gmt":"2014-07-03T13:28:27","slug":"palace-pnoy-still-trust-abad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/07\/03\/palace-pnoy-still-trust-abad\/","title":{"rendered":"Palace: PNoy still trust Abad"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_11549\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11549\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Edwin-Lacierda.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11549\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Edwin-Lacierda-300x190.png\" alt=\"Presidential Spokesperson Edwin Lacierda. Screenshot from May 14 press briefing.\" width=\"300\" height=\"190\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Edwin-Lacierda-300x190.png 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Edwin-Lacierda-1024x651.png 1024w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Edwin-Lacierda.png 1070w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11549\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Presidential Spokesperson Edwin Lacierda. Screenshot from May 14 press briefing.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA \u2013 Despite the controversial court ruling against the constitutionality of certain acts in the Disbursement Acceleration Program (DAP) which lead to calls for the budget secretary\u2019s resignation, Malaca\u00f1ang said President Aquino still trust Budget Secretary Florencio Abad.<\/p>\n<p>Malaca\u00f1ang also defended the officials involved in DAP saying, the program meant no harm intentions.<\/p>\n<p>Spokesperson Edwin Lacierda said in a press briefing that there was no need for officials to resign because the program \u201cwas meant to accelerate projects that would benefit the country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you speak of unconstitutionality, it does not immediately equate to wrongdoing,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Lacierda also cited several court rulings declaring certain government initiatives in the past to be unconstitutional adding that such ruling did not spark any calls for resignation among the officials involved.<\/p>\n<p>He cited the \u201cTruth Commission\u201d and the \u201cReproductive Health Law, as examples of government initiatives declared unconstitutional but not illegal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou seem to equate unconstitutionality with criminality. Those are two different things,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you speak of criminal, you speak of specific acts, which the Criminal Code has deemed as criminal acts. There are defined laws which prescribe specific crimes and those crimes are clearly defined under the Criminal Code,\u201d Lacierda explained.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you speak of wrongdoing, that\u2019s another matter,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA \u2013 Despite the controversial court ruling against the constitutionality of certain acts in the Disbursement Acceleration Program (DAP) which &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":11549,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,1145,95],"tags":[6185,4154,193,6378],"class_list":["post-18014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-headline","category-news-ph","tag-abad","tag-palace","tag-pnoy","tag-trust","mauthors-lei-fontamillas","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18014","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=18014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18014\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}