{"id":271311,"date":"2020-10-09T01:25:43","date_gmt":"2020-10-09T05:25:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=271311"},"modified":"2020-10-09T01:25:43","modified_gmt":"2020-10-09T05:25:43","slug":"prrd-to-cayetano-velasco-resolve-impasse-or-else","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/10\/09\/prrd-to-cayetano-velasco-resolve-impasse-or-else\/","title":{"rendered":"PRRD to Cayetano, Velasco: Resolve impasse or else"},"content":{"rendered":"
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PASS BUDGET LEGALLY. President Rodrigo R. Duterte addresses the nation at the Malaca\u00f1ang Golf (MALAGO) Clubhouse in Malaca\u00f1ang Park, Manila on Thursday (Oct. 08, 2020). Duterte told members of the House of Representatives to resolve their issue and pass the 2019 national budget \u201clegally and constitutionally.\u201d
ROBINSON NI\u00d1AL\/ PRESIDENTIAL PHOTO<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Fed up with intramurals at the House of Representatives, President Rodrigo Duterte on Thursday night urged speakership rivals House Speaker Alan Peter Cayetano and Marinduque Rep. Lord Allan Velasco to resolve their leadership tussle or else he would fix the problem himself.<\/p>\n

\u201cEither you resolve the issue\u00a0sa<\/em>\u00a0impasse\u00a0ninyo diyan<\/em>\u00a0(on your impasse) and pass the budget legally and constitutionally.\u00a0Pag hindi ninyo ginawa, ako ang gagawa para sa inyo<\/em>\u00a0(If you fail to do it, I\u2019ll do it for you),\u201d Duterte said in a taped speech.<\/p>\n

Duterte\u2019s threat came after senators warned that the move of Cayetano and his allies to abruptly suspend its session at the House of Representatives would guarantee a reenacted national budget for 2021, which would be a blow to the government\u2019s financial capacity to address the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) pandemic.<\/p>\n

Senate President Vicente Sotto III and Senator Panfilo Lacson said the sudden suspension of sessions in the House is related to the speakership row between Cayetano and Velasco as it preempts any attempt to snatch away the leadership from the former at least until sessions resume on Nov. 16.<\/p>\n

Duterte brokered a term-sharing agreement in 2019 where Cayetano would serve as the Speaker until October 2020 while Velasco would supposedly take over and assume the position until 18th Congress ends in 2022.<\/p>\n

However, Duterte said he no longer wanted to be in between the tug-of-war taking place between his two allies if would not mean putting the proposed 2021 budget in jeopardy.<\/p>\n

\u201cHuwag naman sana ninyo sobrahan ang laro sa Congress na yung budget mismo ang nalagay sa alanganin<\/em>\u00a0(Don\u2019t play too much in Congress to the point that the budget is at risk),\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Duterte said he would not give them a deadline, but would step in once he sees the possibility of the proposed 2021 budget being delayed.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am not going to give a timeline.\u00a0Mga diktador lang gumagawa ng ganun. Gusto ko na ayusin ninyo<\/em>\u00a0(Only dictators do that. I want you to resolve the problem). If and when I see that there will be a delay and it will result in the derailment of government service I will, I said, solve the problem for you,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

He said he was not scaring them, pointing out that there were more important concerns that needed to be addressed rather than the issue of who gets to be the House Speaker.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe always forget that there is something more, higher than just the delaying or maneuvering in Congress because everybody wants to be Speaker,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Think about the sick, the dying<\/strong><\/p>\n

Duterte appealed to the speakership rivals to consider Filipinos who were suffering and dying from Covid-19.<\/p>\n

\u201cAng pakiusap ko, ayusin ninyo at isipin ninyo ang Pilipino na nasa ospital ngayon na kailangan ng medisina at yung mga Pilipinong mamatay ngayon<\/em>\u00a0(My appeal is, resolve it and think about Filipinos in the hospital who need medicine and Filipinos who are dying),\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

He said the government already had enough problems dealing with the health crisis, especially since a vaccine has yet to be developed.<\/p>\n

\u201cAng gobyerno natin maraming problema<\/em>.\u00a0\u2018Yang<\/em>\u00a0Covid\u00a0na \u2018yan, hindi \u2018yan umaalis ng Pilipinas matagal na<\/em>\u00a0(The government has a lot of problems. Covid has been here for a long time). So people are dying, people are sick, people need medicines\u00a0at marami pang ibang sabihin ko sainyo, alam ninyo \u2018yan<\/em>. I will not enumerate\u00a0kasi alam ninyo, kayo ang nag<\/em>-prepare\u00a0ng<\/em>\u00a0budget\u00a0nga diyan e<\/em>\u00a0(and there are more problems. You know them all. I will not enumerate because you know you prepared the budget),\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Duterte noted that he could not understand why he would still hear reports about patients dying because they are unable to pay for medicines despite being admitted in government hospitals.<\/p>\n

\u201cHindi ko talaga maintindihan isa pa ito na may mamatay sa ospital ng gobyerno dahil walang medisina. Huwag na huwag akong makarinig ng ganun sa totoo lang. Ang Kongreso<\/em>\u00a0must be generous enough to give us the Bayanihan Act to Heal as One lahat ng pera nandiyan.\u00a0Wala pa naman akong kalokohan akong nakita<\/em>\u00a0(I really don\u2019t understand how people die in government hospitals because there\u2019s no medicine. I really hate hearing about them to be honest. The Congress must be generous enough to give us the Bayanihan Act where all the money is),\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

No apologies<\/strong><\/p>\n

Duterte said people will not remember the players involved in causing a government to go \u201chaywire\u201d but they will always remember the President under whose term it happened.<\/p>\n

\u201cDito sa ating bayan na kung magka letse letse, hindi sila magtanong kung sino ang may kagagawan o<\/em>\u00a0(In our country, when things go haywire, they won\u2019t ask who did it or who is) responsible for the mess that we are in right now.\u00a0Ang maalaala lang nila, \u2018panahon ni Duterte napakabaho\u2019, kita mo kung ganun.<\/em>\u00a0They do not mention\u00a0ah yung si<\/em>\u00a0Alan\u00a0sa<\/em>\u00a0Congress\u00a0o si<\/em>\u00a0Lord\u00a0sa ano, wala. Ang sabihin administrasyon ni<\/em>\u00a0Duterte (What they\u2019ll remember is \u2018during the time of the President was stinky.\u2019 They do not mention oh it\u2019s Alan in Congress or Lord. They\u2019ll say it happened during the Duterte administration),\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

He said he did not want to be take part in a squabble only to have to take the blame when he is no longer in office.<\/p>\n

\u201cHuwag ninyo ako idamay sa away ninyo at tapos<\/em>\u00a0(Don\u2019t get me involved in your fight and then) in the future people will be asking what happened to the administration of Duterte or the administration of Arroyo or of Aquino or of Ramos.\u00a0Hindi man sila magtanong kung sino yung mga tao doon<\/em>\u00a0responsible for the haywire administration of a certain period\u00a0gaya ko sa panahon ko<\/em>\u00a0(They won\u2019t ask who were responsible for causing the administration to go haywire during my term),\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Duterte, meanwhile, said he would not apologize for reprimanding his allies in Congress.<\/p>\n

\u201cI will not apologize for saying this because indeed we are all of the same dream and that is really by itself and alone it is already an honor, it is a dream fulfilled for any lawyer, for any Filipino for that matter to serve his country,\u201d he said.\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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