{"id":23339,"date":"2014-08-23T19:39:30","date_gmt":"2014-08-23T11:39:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=23339"},"modified":"2014-08-23T21:58:31","modified_gmt":"2014-08-23T13:58:31","slug":"palace-2016-elections-will-push-through","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/08\/23\/palace-2016-elections-will-push-through\/","title":{"rendered":"Palace: 2016 elections will push through"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_12611\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12611\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Edwin-Lacierda.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12611\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Edwin-Lacierda-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"Presidential Spokesperson Edwin Lacierda\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Edwin-Lacierda-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Edwin-Lacierda.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-12611\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Presidential Spokesperson Edwin Lacierda<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">MANILA &#8212; Following an earlier statement which sparked the &#8220;no-election&#8221; rumors,\u00a0Malaca\u00f1ang yesterday clarified that there will be elections in 2016.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cThe President has neither decided on term extension or endorsing a candidate. In both instances, 2016 elections will push through.\u201d\u00a0presidential spokesman Edwin Lacierda, said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The statement was made after Lacierda made a statement to TV reporters that the president will have to announce the candidate he will endorse &#8220;suppose the 2016 elections will push through.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cLet\u2019s wait for the endorsement of the President kung sino ang kanyang kandidato sa 2016 kung sakaling itutuloy ang 2016 elections,\u201d\u00a0Lacierda was quoted saying.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">His words then, sparked issues that there would be no elections, or &#8220;no-el&#8221; in 2016.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Critics of the administration considered his statement a slip of the tongue, which alarmed some of the anti-term extension groups.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Lacierda, meanwhile, dismissed the allegations adding that the government is focused on addressing the problems that the country is currently facing.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cIf you want to know if there\u2019s something I\u2019d like to emphasize, if there\u2019s one thing that the Aquino legacy is all about: it\u2019s about honesty and integrity in government service,\u201d Lacierda said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; MANILA &#8212; Following an earlier statement which sparked the &#8220;no-election&#8221; rumors,\u00a0Malaca\u00f1ang yesterday clarified that there will be elections in &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":12611,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[6640,7509],"class_list":["post-23339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ph","tag-lacierda","tag-no-el","mauthors-lei-fontamillas","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23339","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=23339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23339\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}