{"id":55449,"date":"2015-07-13T15:39:35","date_gmt":"2015-07-13T07:39:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=55449"},"modified":"2015-07-13T15:39:35","modified_gmt":"2015-07-13T07:39:35","slug":"belmonte-binay-impeachment-is-unlikely","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/07\/13\/belmonte-binay-impeachment-is-unlikely\/","title":{"rendered":"Belmonte: Binay impeachment is unlikely"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_13753\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13753\" style=\"width: 196px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/sonny-belmonte.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13753\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/sonny-belmonte.jpg\" alt=\"Speaker Feliciano Belmonte Jr. \/ Wikipedia Photo\" width=\"196\" height=\"257\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-13753\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Speaker Feliciano Belmonte Jr. \/ Wikipedia Photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA &#8212; Vice President Jejomar Binay&#8217;s impeachment may not be entertained by the House of Representatives, according to Speaker Feliciano Belmonte Jr.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement to ABS-CBN in The Hague, Netherlands, \u00a0Belmonte said that he will discourage the &#8216;time-consuming&#8217; impeachment process.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am not going to encourage impeachment. I\u2019d like to discourage it in fact because whether he is impeached or not, it\u2019s just going to be a time-consuming, divisive thing,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The statement came following reports that some Liberal Party (LP) lawmakers are planning to file an impeachment case against Binay.<\/p>\n<p>Belmonte, who is a part of the top-level delegation representing the country in international court, said that it would be better if LP will allow Binay to run as the opposition&#8217;s candidate.<\/p>\n<p>The Speaker, meanwhile, advised Binay to attend the senate inquiry and address all the accusations raised against him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA &#8212; Vice President Jejomar Binay&#8217;s impeachment may not be entertained by the House of Representatives, according to Speaker Feliciano &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":13753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-news-ph","mauthors-lei-fontamillas","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55449","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=55449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55449\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}