{"id":46556,"date":"2015-04-09T14:39:11","date_gmt":"2015-04-09T06:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=46556"},"modified":"2015-04-09T14:39:11","modified_gmt":"2015-04-09T06:39:11","slug":"pena-wont-yield-despite-ca-ruling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/04\/09\/pena-wont-yield-despite-ca-ruling\/","title":{"rendered":"Pena won\u2019t yield despite CA ruling"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_44965\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-44965\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/image6.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-44965\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/image6-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"Then Vice Mayor Romulo 'Kid' Pe\u00f1a (left) with Mayor Jejomar 'JunJun' Binay of Makati City (Photo courtesy of Pe\u00f1a's Facebook page)\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/image6-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/image6.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-44965\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Then Vice Mayor Romulo &#8216;Kid&#8217; Pe\u00f1a (left) with Mayor Jejomar &#8216;JunJun&#8217; Binay of Makati City (Photo courtesy of Pe\u00f1a&#8217;s Facebook page)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA \u2013 Vice Mayor Romulo Pena will not yield his post as Makati City\u2019s \u2018acting mayor\u2019 despite the issuance of a writ of preliminary injunction of the Court of Appeals on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI already consulted the Ombudsman and the DILG about it and I am still waiting for their directive,\u201d Pe\u00f1a said.<\/p>\n<p>The Vice Mayor added that he will continue his duties as Makati\u2019s acting mayor until the Supreme Court come up with a decision on the Ombudsman suspension order on Mayor Jejomar Erwin Binay Jr.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTherefore, as far as I am concerned, up to the point that they will give me a directive, I will stay as acting mayor,\u201d he added saying he will wait for the Ombudsman\u2019s directive.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are after the welfare of the constituents and I do not want to be a hindrance. I just want to stand firm on what should really be the process,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Binay earlier called on Pena to sign the payroll of the city hall employees.<\/p>\n<p>Pena, however said that since he is the acting mayor, it is no longer his duties to sign the documents.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSince I assumed (office) as acting mayor, the highest ranking city councilor should assume my post as vice mayor.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA \u2013 Vice Mayor Romulo Pena will not yield his post as Makati City\u2019s \u2018acting mayor\u2019 despite the issuance of &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":44965,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ph","mauthors-lei-fontamillas","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46556","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=46556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46556\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}