{"id":45161,"date":"2015-03-19T02:48:10","date_gmt":"2015-03-18T18:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=45161"},"modified":"2015-03-19T02:48:10","modified_gmt":"2015-03-18T18:48:10","slug":"house-panel-defers-voting-over-proposal-to-grant-gma-house-arrest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/03\/19\/house-panel-defers-voting-over-proposal-to-grant-gma-house-arrest\/","title":{"rendered":"House panel defers voting over proposal to grant GMA House arrest"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_4054\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4054\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/gloria-arroyo3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4054\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/gloria-arroyo3.jpg\" alt=\"Former president and now Pampanga Representative Gloria Macapagal Arroyo. (FILE PHOTO)\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/gloria-arroyo3.jpg 600w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/gloria-arroyo3-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4054\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former president and now Pampanga Representative Gloria Macapagal Arroyo. (FILE PHOTO)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA &#8212; The House Committee on Justice has deferred voting over the proposal asking the Sandiganbayan to grant house arrest to Pampanga Rep. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo (CGMA) for humanitarian considerations, Akbayan Party-list Rep. Barry Gutierrez said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The decision to defer was undertaken over concerns that approving the resolution would send out an &#8220;ominous message to the people about how grossly inequitable our justice system works.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Gutierrez said that approving the resolution [might] be viewed as &#8220;Congress bending over backwards to accommodate one of its own while turning a blind eye to others.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I appreciate our concern for CGMA but approving the resolution raises issue of fairness for other inmates,&#8221; Gutierrez explained.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If we&#8217;re going to extend the privilege to government officials, we&#8217;ll be questioned why we&#8217;re not doing the same for other inmates,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>Introduced by 1-BAP Party-list Rep. Silvestre H. Bello III, House Resolution 1908 was filed to urge the Sandiganbayan to grant house arrest to Mrs. Arroyo based on &#8220;humanitarian and medical grounds.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>According to the resolution, the medical condition of Mrs. Arroyo &#8220;has never improved and remained fragile&#8221; since her detention at the Veterans Memorial Medical Center in 2012.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA &#8212; The House Committee on Justice has deferred voting over the proposal asking the Sandiganbayan to grant house arrest &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":4054,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95,483],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ph","category-politics","mauthors-philippines-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45161","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=45161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45161\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}