{"id":233928,"date":"2019-10-08T21:23:03","date_gmt":"2019-10-09T01:23:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=233928"},"modified":"2019-10-08T21:23:22","modified_gmt":"2019-10-09T01:23:22","slug":"palace-hands-off-pet-decision-on-marcos-vs-robredo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/10\/08\/palace-hands-off-pet-decision-on-marcos-vs-robredo\/","title":{"rendered":"Palace hands off PET decision on Marcos vs. Robredo"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_215180\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-215180\" style=\"width: 720px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/60248007_871902666478120_3832998998734536704_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-215180\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/60248007_871902666478120_3832998998734536704_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/60248007_871902666478120_3832998998734536704_n.jpg 720w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/60248007_871902666478120_3832998998734536704_n-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-215180\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo said the President will not intrude into \u201cthe competence and the authority\u201d of the PET. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/PresSpokespersonPH\/photos\/a.397841807217544\/871902659811454\/?type=3&amp;theater\">File Photo<\/a>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/PresSpokespersonPH\/\">Office of the Presidential Spokesperson\/Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0&#8212; President Rodrigo Duterte will not interfere in the Presidential Electoral Tribunal (PET) decision on the poll protest filed by former senator Ferdinand \u201cBongbong\u201d Marcos against Vice President Leonor &#8220;Leni&#8221; Robredo, Malaca\u00f1ang said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The Supreme Court sitting as PET has reset the voting on the election protest after it did not take any action on the case during Tuesday\u2019s tribunal\u2019s session.<\/p>\n<p>Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo said the President will not intrude into \u201cthe competence and the authority\u201d of the PET.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will leave it to the tribunal to decide on its own, whatever pending cases it has,\u201d Panelo said in a Palace briefing.<\/p>\n<p>He said Duterte will enforce the law and respect whatever decision the PET arrives at.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt has to decide on its own on the basis of what is required by law and the evidence,\u201d Panelo said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe President is always on the side of the law. Whatever the law says, he should enforce it,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>In 2016, Marcos filed the poll protest to contest Robredo\u2019s vice presidential win. Robredo won by only a little over 260,000 votes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; President Rodrigo Duterte will not interfere in the Presidential Electoral Tribunal (PET) decision on the poll protest filed by &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":215180,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-233928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-azer-parrocha","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233928","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=233928"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":233929,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233928\/revisions\/233929"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}