{"id":24027,"date":"2014-08-28T10:16:00","date_gmt":"2014-08-28T02:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=24027"},"modified":"2014-08-28T17:20:28","modified_gmt":"2014-08-28T09:20:28","slug":"palace-still-confident-that-impeachment-vs-pnoy-wont-prosper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/08\/28\/palace-still-confident-that-impeachment-vs-pnoy-wont-prosper\/","title":{"rendered":"Palace still confident that impeachment vs. PNoy won\u2019t prosper"},"content":{"rendered":"<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>MANILA \u2013 Malaca\u00f1ang remains confident that President Benigno Aquino III will survive the impeachment cases against him.<\/p>\n<p>The president will get through the complaints even without the help of allies in the House of Representatives, according to Presidential Spokesman Edwin Lacierda in a press briefing yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen we say confident, then there\u2019s assumption\u2026 there\u2019s this implication that we\u2019re moving heaven and earth to do that. What we\u2019re saying is we believe that the President has not committed any impeachable offense and I\u2019m sure\u2026 when they go through sufficiency of substance, when they go through the allegations of the impeachment complaints\u2026 they will see that there is no merit (to allegations) the President has committed an impeachable offense,\u201d Lacierda said.<\/p>\n<p>Following the Supreme Court&#8217;s decision, declaring \u00a0some parts of the Disbursement Acceleration Program (DAP) to be unconstitutional, two lawmakers have filed impeachment complaints against the president.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, another impeachment complaint was filed against Aquino in connection with the Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement (EDCA) between the Philippines and the United States.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe certainly do not agree with the allegations in the three impeachment complaints. However, there is a process in the House, and that\u2019s a process dictated by the Constitution, so we respect the process,\u201d Lacierda said.<\/p>\n<p>He also added that the administration is more focused on addressing the most pressing concerns in the country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs to \u2018worried\u2019? We\u2019re not concerned about the impeachment complaint proceedings right now, although it is a very important proceeding in the House. What we\u2019re more concerned with is really how to address all the concerns of the country that affect our countrymen,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA \u2013 Malaca\u00f1ang remains confident that President Benigno Aquino III will survive the impeachment cases against him. The president will &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":12611,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,95],"tags":[6408,193],"class_list":["post-24027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news-ph","tag-impeachment","tag-pnoy","mauthors-lei-fontamillas","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24027","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=24027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24027\/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=24027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}