{"id":205887,"date":"2019-03-09T02:41:36","date_gmt":"2019-03-09T07:41:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=205887"},"modified":"2019-03-09T02:41:36","modified_gmt":"2019-03-09T07:41:36","slug":"no-hugpong-otso-diretso-senatorial-debate-comelec","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/03\/09\/no-hugpong-otso-diretso-senatorial-debate-comelec\/","title":{"rendered":"No Hugpong-Otso Diretso senatorial debate: Comelec"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_107267\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-107267\" style=\"width: 4272px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Palacio_Del_Gobernador.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-107267\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Palacio_Del_Gobernador.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"4272\" height=\"2848\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Palacio_Del_Gobernador.jpg 4272w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Palacio_Del_Gobernador-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Palacio_Del_Gobernador-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Palacio_Del_Gobernador-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 4272px) 100vw, 4272px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-107267\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u201cThe Commission en banc has deliberated on the request and the request will be denied,\u201d Comelec spokesperson James Jimenez said in a statement. (<a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=21560267\">File Photo by Elmer B. Domingo &#8211; Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0&#8212; There will be no debate between senatorial bets of the administration party&#8217;s Hugpong ng Pagbabago (HNP) and the Otso Diretso opposition bloc, the Commission on Elections (Comelec) said Friday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Commission en banc has deliberated on the request and the request will be denied,\u201d Comelec spokesperson James Jimenez said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>He noted that they cannot hold such an event solely for two parties.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGranting Otso Diretso\u2019s request would be tantamount to giving preferential treatment to some senatorial candidates or slates,\u201d the poll body official added.<\/p>\n<p>He said it would also be difficult to conduct a debate since there are more than 60 aspirants running for senator.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are considerable time constraints, with only about two months remaining (before the mid-term polls),\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, Otso Diretso asked the poll body to hold a debate with HNP candidates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; There will be no debate between senatorial bets of the administration party&#8217;s Hugpong ng Pagbabago (HNP) and the Otso &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":107267,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-205887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-ferdinand-patinio","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205887","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=205887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205887\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}