{"id":54385,"date":"2015-07-06T15:05:50","date_gmt":"2015-07-06T07:05:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=54385"},"modified":"2015-07-06T15:05:50","modified_gmt":"2015-07-06T07:05:50","slug":"500-lp-members-on-mass-leave-lp-not-bothered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/07\/06\/500-lp-members-on-mass-leave-lp-not-bothered\/","title":{"rendered":"500 LP members on mass leave, LP not bothered"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_54386\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-54386\" style=\"width: 608px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/60828.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-54386\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/60828.jpg\" alt=\"Former Liberal Party (LP) member Governor Edgardo Tallada (left) and LP logo (right) (Photo courtesy of Camarines Norte News)\" width=\"608\" height=\"456\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/60828.jpg 608w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/60828-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 608px) 100vw, 608px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-54386\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former Liberal Party (LP) member Governor Edgardo Tallada (left) and LP logo (right) (Photo courtesy of Camarines Norte News)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA \u2013 According to several reports, about 500 Camarines Norte members of the ruling Liberal Party (LP) took a \u2018mass leave of absence,\u2019 after Governor Edgardo Tallada was expelled from the political party.<\/p>\n<p>Tallado got involved in a sex scandal last year with a woman who was not his wife. This prompted the LP to investigate on the matter and later on expelled him from the party on grounds of immorality.<\/p>\n<p>In its resolution, the ruling party withheld that Tallado\u2019s \u2018immoral act tarnished the good name and reputation of the LP as a whole.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe LP leadership has a different point of view on the issue. His case underwent a process. It was decided on by the regional leaders so we respect and support that,\u201d LP member and possible standard-bearer Interior Secretary Manuel \u201cMar\u201d Roxas II said, emphasizing that Tallado was given \u2018fair and due process.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Another LP member, party secretary general Mel Sarmiento, urged party members to respect the ruling, clarifying that they could still support Tallada even if he was no longer a member of the political party.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA \u2013 According to several reports, about 500 Camarines Norte members of the ruling Liberal Party (LP) took a \u2018mass &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":54386,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,16,95,483],"tags":[249],"class_list":["post-54385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-news","category-news-ph","category-politics","tag-rewrite","mauthors-cyra-moraleda","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54385","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=54385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54385\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}