{"id":52759,"date":"2015-06-23T19:32:07","date_gmt":"2015-06-23T11:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=52759"},"modified":"2015-06-23T19:32:07","modified_gmt":"2015-06-23T11:32:07","slug":"aquino-accepts-binays-resignation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/06\/23\/aquino-accepts-binays-resignation\/","title":{"rendered":"Aquino accepts Binay\u2019s resignation"},"content":{"rendered":"
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President Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III (left) and Vice President Jejomar “Jojo” Binay (right) in a Cabinet meeting prior Binay’s resignation (Photo from Aquino’s official Facebook page)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

MANILA \u2013 President Benigno \u201cP-Noy\u201d Aquino III accepted Vice President Jejomar \u201cJojo\u201d Binay\u2019s resignation from his Cabinet.<\/p>\n

Binay quit his position as the chief of the Housing and Urban Development Coordinating Council and the Presidential Adviser on OFW Affairs.<\/p>\n

He sent the resignation letter through his daughter, Makati Representative Abigail Binay, who personally delivered it to Aquino\u2019s office yesterday afternoon.<\/p>\n

Executive Secretary Paquito Ochoa Jr. then received the letter in Aquino\u2019s account.<\/p>\n

Administration lawyers had long expected Binay\u2019s resignation.<\/p>\n

\u201cI felt it was only a question of time that he was resigning from the Cabinet to officially and formally assume the position of head of the opposition party and be its official candidate for president,\u201d Iloilo Rep. Jerry Tre\u00f1as said.<\/p>\n

Caloocan City Rep. Edgar Erice, on the other hand, believed that Binay\u2019s move was for political reasons.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am sure he has already got what he wanted from the Aquino administration and he is now sure that he will not be endorsed by President Aquino,\u201d Erice said, suspecting that Binay would criticize the administration now that he was no longer a member of it.<\/p>\n

\u201cA trapo (traditional politician) at heart and mind, VP Binay will now see and say an all-evil description of the government that for five years he had served,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Senator Antonio Trillanes IV, one of Binay\u2019s critics, saw the Vice President\u2019s move as a \u2018very positive political development.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u201cFinally! This is a very positive political development. Now, there is no more inconsistency in the \u2018tuwid na daan\u2019 slogan of the P-Noy administration,\u201d Trillanes said.<\/p>\n

Members of the United Nationalist Alliance (UNA), for their part, believed that Binay\u2019s move was due to \u2018personal reasons.\u2019 They also disclosed that the Vice President had long wanted to resign as he felt \u2018awkward\u2019 being the \u2018odd man out\u2019 in Aquino\u2019s Cabinet dominated by members of the Liberal Party (LP).<\/p>\n

Para\u00f1aque City Rep. Gustavo Tambunting, however, assured the public that Binay will continue fulfilling his duties sans the position.<\/p>\n

\u201cHis resignation though should not be seen as an abandonment of his duties or a capitulation to politics. It should be seen as his effort to make a distinction between him and this administration. This will also quell any talk about him using government resources during the upcoming campaign,\u201d Tambunting said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

MANILA \u2013 President Benigno \u201cP-Noy\u201d Aquino III accepted Vice President Jejomar \u201cJojo\u201d Binay\u2019s resignation from his Cabinet. Binay quit his …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":52760,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,16,95,483],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-news","category-news-ph","category-politics","mauthors-cyra-moraleda","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52759","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\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52759\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}