{"id":24953,"date":"2014-09-05T16:57:04","date_gmt":"2014-09-05T08:57:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=24953"},"modified":"2014-09-05T22:58:41","modified_gmt":"2014-09-05T14:58:41","slug":"comelec-govt-has-no-budget-for-cha-cha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/09\/05\/comelec-govt-has-no-budget-for-cha-cha\/","title":{"rendered":"Comelec: Gov&#8217;t has no budget for Cha-cha"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_11191\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11191\" style=\"width: 240px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/sixto-brillantes.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11191\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/sixto-brillantes.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Facebook Page of Sixto Brillantes\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11191\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Facebook Page of Sixto Brillantes<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA &#8212; Commission on Elections (Comelec) Chairman Sixto Brillantes Jr. said yesterday that they have no budget for any Charter change (Cha-cha)-related activities in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Brillantes added that House of Representatives appropriations committee chairman\u00a0Isidro Ungab, of Davao City, has already proposed a P7.1 billion budget for Cha-cha next year.<\/p>\n<p>According to Brillantes, the Department of Budget and Management (DBM) however has rejected the proposal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut the Department of Budget and Management (DBM) did not approve it. It seems Malaca\u00f1ang is not interested in Charter change,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He also added holding a plebiscite for the ratification of possible changes that will be created by Cha-cha requires a huge amount.<\/p>\n<p>This was already anticipated by the Congress, according to the Comelec chair.<\/p>\n<p>He also revealed that the DBM also disapproved the\u00a0P679.1 million budget sought by the lawmakers for the conduct of a plebiscite that will ratify the proposed Bangsamoro basic law.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA &#8212; Commission on Elections (Comelec) Chairman Sixto Brillantes Jr. said yesterday that they have no budget for any Charter &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":11191,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[3717],"class_list":["post-24953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ph","tag-sixto-brillantes","mauthors-lei-fontamillas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24953","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=24953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24953\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}