{"id":23667,"date":"2014-08-26T15:45:52","date_gmt":"2014-08-26T07:45:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=23667"},"modified":"2014-08-26T18:50:13","modified_gmt":"2014-08-26T10:50:13","slug":"solon-pnoy-should-fire-abad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/08\/26\/solon-pnoy-should-fire-abad\/","title":{"rendered":"Solon: PNoy should fire Abad"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_23668\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-23668\" style=\"width: 269px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Walden-belo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-23668\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Walden-belo.jpg\" alt=\"Wikipedia Photo\" width=\"269\" height=\"187\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-23668\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wikipedia Photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA \u2013 Akbayan Representative Walden Bello said Budget Secretary Florencio Abad and Agrarian Reform Secretary Virgilio de los Reyes should be fired for damaging President Aquino\u2019s reputation.<\/p>\n<p>Bello personally made the appeal to the President asking him to remove Abad from office as he has deviated from the administration\u2019s straight path (matuwid na daan)<\/p>\n<p>The lawmaker said that Abad created a negative impact on the President\u2019s image because of the Disbursement Acceleration Program (DAP).<\/p>\n<p>The Supreme Court has earlier declared certain parts of the DAP to be unconstitutional.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOwing to Mr. Abad\u2019s bad judgment, your administration has been severely wounded by the DAP issue. Your popularity may not suffer but the credibility of the reform program with the citizenry will be thoroughly eroded with the continued presence of Mr. Abad.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think he has become a hindrance to the fulfillment of the program and I feel strongly that he must go for the matuwid na daan to regain its credibility,\u201d Bello said in a Philippine Daily Inquirer report.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Bello said the Agriculture Secretary should also be fired for being \u201cweak and indecisive\u201d in the implementation of the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program Extension with Carper Reforms Law.<\/p>\n<p>De los Reyes, however, refused to comment on the issue.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have not seen his note. I am on the road now. Sorry. I have no comment at this point,\u201d the agrarian reform secretary said in a text message for the Philippine Daily Inquirer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA \u2013 Akbayan Representative Walden Bello said Budget Secretary Florencio Abad and Agrarian Reform Secretary Virgilio de los Reyes should &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":23668,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,95],"tags":[7236,7530],"class_list":["post-23667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news-ph","tag-term-extension","tag-walden-belo","mauthors-lei-fontamillas","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23667","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=23667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23667\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}