{"id":221242,"date":"2019-07-02T20:08:38","date_gmt":"2019-07-03T00:08:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=221242"},"modified":"2019-07-02T20:08:38","modified_gmt":"2019-07-03T00:08:38","slug":"drilon-urges-congress-to-end-political-dynasties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/07\/02\/drilon-urges-congress-to-end-political-dynasties\/","title":{"rendered":"Drilon urges Congress to end political dynasties"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_144480\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-144480\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/20953157_10155127478699514_600390050249059138_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-144480\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/20953157_10155127478699514_600390050249059138_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"551\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/20953157_10155127478699514_600390050249059138_n.jpg 960w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/20953157_10155127478699514_600390050249059138_n-768x440.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-144480\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">According to a statement on Tuesday, Drilon has filed Senate Bill No. 11, or the Anti-Political Dynasty Act, for the first regular session of the 18th Congress. (File <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/frankdrilon\/photos\/a.280406399513.141085.124912994513\/10155127478699514\/?type=3&amp;amp;theater\">Photo<\/a>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/frankdrilon\/\">Franklin Drilon\/Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0&#8212; Senate Minority Leader Franklin Drilon is urging Congress to fulfill its constitutional duty to end political dynasties as he filed a measure prohibiting the continuous existence of such practice.<\/p>\n<p>According to a statement on Tuesday, Drilon has filed Senate Bill No. 11, or the Anti-Political Dynasty Act, for the first regular session of the 18th Congress.<\/p>\n<p>The measure seeks to prohibit spouses or relatives of an incumbent elective official seeking re-election to hold or run for any elective office in the same province in the same election.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Constitution entrusted to Congress the duty to end political dynasties. Unfortunately, we have failed in our duty and, hence, political dynasty still persists and so does poverty,&#8221; Drilon said.<\/p>\n<p>Also included in Drilon\u2019s pet bills filed at the Senate is the bill seeking to strengthen the political party system in the country and discourage political &#8220;turncoatism&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Turncoatism should never be tolerated since it only distorts the concept of word of honor and dignity of a leader. It is therefore imperative that the country&#8217;s political party system should be strengthened in order to achieve genuine political development and democratization,&#8221; Drilon said.<\/p>\n<p>Other priority measures of Drilon are the amendments to the Public Service Act, Retail Trade Liberalization Act, the Citizenship Retention and Reacquisition Act; institutionalization and strengthening of Public-Private Partnerships; and creation of Boracay Development Authority.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; Senate Minority Leader Franklin Drilon is urging Congress to fulfill its constitutional duty to end political dynasties as he &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":144480,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-221242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-filane-mikee-cervantes","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221242","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=221242"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":221243,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221242\/revisions\/221243"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}