{"id":220361,"date":"2019-06-25T23:41:01","date_gmt":"2019-06-26T03:41:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=220361"},"modified":"2019-06-25T23:41:01","modified_gmt":"2019-06-26T03:41:01","slug":"prrd-leads-oath-taking-of-winning-hugpong-senate-local-bets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/06\/25\/prrd-leads-oath-taking-of-winning-hugpong-senate-local-bets\/","title":{"rendered":"PRRD leads oath-taking of winning Hugpong Senate, local bets"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_220362\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-220362\" style=\"width: 3600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/celi12-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-220362\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/celi12-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"3600\" height=\"2400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/celi12-1.jpg 3600w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/celi12-1-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 3600px) 100vw, 3600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-220362\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE: OATH-TAKING. President Rodrigo R. Duterte administers the oath of office to the newly-elected senators of the Hugpong ng Pagbabago during a ceremony at Malaca\u00f1an Palace on Tuesday (June 25, 2019). Most of the winning senators in the recent May polls are allies of the President, including Senator Cynthia Villar (3rd from left), who topped the race. (Presidential photo by Simeon Celi Jr. via PNA)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0&#8211; President Rodrigo R. Duterte on Tuesday administered the mass oath-taking of newly-elected senators and local officials endorsed by the Hugpong ng Pagbabago (HNP) in the recent mid-term polls.<\/p>\n<p>The two mass oath-taking rites were held in Malaca\u00f1ang, a day after Duterte joined the HNP Thanksgiving party at the Manila Peninsula Hotel in Makati City.<\/p>\n<p>Those who took their oath as senators were re-elected senators Cynthia Villar and Sonny Angara, returning senators Pia Cayetano and Bong Revilla, and Senators-elect Imee Marcos, Francis Tolentino and Ronald dela Rosa.<\/p>\n<p>Re-elected senator and Hugpong bet Koko Pimentel is out of the country, according to reports.<\/p>\n<p>Senator-elect Christopher Lawrence &#8220;Bong&#8221; Go, who ran under the ruling Partido Demokratiko Pilipino\u2013Lakas ng Bayan (PDP-Laban), also graced the occasion.<\/p>\n<p>The Hugpong\u2019s newly-elected candidates who took also their oath before the President include members of the House of Representatives, local chief executives, and locally-elected legislators.<\/p>\n<p>HNP is a regional political party headed by presidential daughter and Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8211; President Rodrigo R. Duterte on Tuesday administered the mass oath-taking of newly-elected senators and local officials endorsed by the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":220362,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-220361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-ej-roque","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220361","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=220361"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":220363,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220361\/revisions\/220363"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}