{"id":22353,"date":"2014-08-16T17:14:12","date_gmt":"2014-08-16T09:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=22353"},"modified":"2014-08-16T17:14:12","modified_gmt":"2014-08-16T09:14:12","slug":"no-charter-change-during-pnoys-term-palace-spokesperson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/08\/16\/no-charter-change-during-pnoys-term-palace-spokesperson\/","title":{"rendered":"No Charter change during PNoy&#8217;s term &#8212; Palace spokesperson"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_10851\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10851\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Abigail-Valte.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10851\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Abigail-Valte-300x189.png\" alt=\"Presidential spokesperson Abigail Valte. Screenshot of PCCO EDP press briefing video.\" width=\"300\" height=\"189\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Abigail-Valte-300x189.png 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Abigail-Valte-1024x647.png 1024w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Abigail-Valte.png 1077w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10851\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Presidential spokesperson Abigail Valte. Screenshot of PCCO EDP press briefing video.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA &#8212; Following recent protests constitutional amendment, Malacanang spokesperson explained on Friday that there will be no Charter change during PNoy&#8217;s term.<\/p>\n<p>Presidential deputy spokesperson Abigail Valte clarified that the President, during a TV5 interview, did not said anything about amending the constitution right now.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think we\u2019re getting a little bit ahead of ourselves. What I remember the President say was that he\u2019s thinking about it. He didn\u2019t say, \u2018Let\u2019s do this tomorrow.\u2019 He did not say anything about doing it tomorrow, doing it next week, doing it in the next few months,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Valte also said that PNoy has nothing to do with the recent move of several administration lawmakers who are campaigning amendments in the Constitution.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThose are their own actions and their own advocacies,\u201d she said, adding that this was \u201cborne out of their own judgment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Contrary to recent reports, Valte also said that PNoy is not clipping the powers of the judiciary.<\/p>\n<p>She insisted that what the president wanted is to &#8220;restore the balance\u201d between the executive, legislative and judicial branches.<\/p>\n<p>Valte calls on the public to wait for the full version of the video which will be aired before commenting on the issue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA &#8212; Following recent protests constitutional amendment, Malacanang spokesperson explained on Friday that there will be no Charter change during &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":10851,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,95],"tags":[978,7236],"class_list":["post-22353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news-ph","tag-malacanang","tag-term-extension","mauthors-lei-fontamillas","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22353","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=22353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22353\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}