{"id":55581,"date":"2015-07-13T14:25:29","date_gmt":"2015-07-13T06:25:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=55581"},"modified":"2015-07-14T01:34:34","modified_gmt":"2015-07-13T17:34:34","slug":"all-makati-councilors-no-show-at-penas-first-flag-raising-as-mayor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/07\/13\/all-makati-councilors-no-show-at-penas-first-flag-raising-as-mayor\/","title":{"rendered":"All Makati councilors no-show at Pe\u00f1a’s first flag raising as Mayor"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Makati<\/a>
Makati Mayor Kid Pena attends his first flag-raising ceremony at the Makati City Hall (Maricar Brizuela \/ Team Inquirer via Twitter<\/a>-)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

MANILA \u2013 Not one of the 17 councilors of Makati City showed up at Mayor Romulo ‘Kid’\u00a0Pe\u00f1a’s first flag-raising ceremony Monday, July 13, at the Makati City Hall.<\/p>\n

Pe\u00f1a is now the acting mayor of Makati after Mayor Jejomar Erwin ‘JunJun’ Binay Jr. was preventively suspended by the Ombudsman.<\/p>\n

In a report from Rappler,\u00a0Councilor Marie Alethea Casal Uy said that councilors\u00a0“don’t regularly attend” the flag ceremony at the city hall even when Binay was still the mayor.<\/p>\n

Uy clarified that the city council will continue to support programs “for the good of the people.” However, “if it’s just for PR, [they] don’t think that’s right anymore.”<\/p>\n

Uy added that said reforms and programs must follow the city’s law and budget because the council wants to make sure that they can follow through.<\/p>\n

Makati’s new acting vice mayor Leonardo Magpantay was also absent during the flag-raising ceremony, but downplayed his absence, saying he was preparing for his oathtaking.<\/p>\n

Magpantay was sworn in by Judge Ronaldo Moreno of the Makati Regional Trial Court on Monday.<\/p>\n

He\u00a0explained that the councilors’ absence should not be a big deal since they are an “independent body” and will continue to operate independently whoever sits as the city mayor.<\/p>\n

“The council is an independent body. We create and approve resolutions and ordinances and appropriate funds. We are different,” he said in a Philippine Daily Inquirer report, emphasizing their separation from the mayor’s office.<\/p>\n

Magpantay and Binay are both members of the\u00a0United Nationalist Alliance. While\u00a0Pe\u00f1a is part of the Liberal Party, the current administration’s coalition.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

MANILA \u2013 Not one of the 17 councilors of Makati City showed up at Mayor Romulo ‘Kid’\u00a0Pe\u00f1a’s first flag-raising ceremony …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":55585,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,95,483],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news-ph","category-politics","mauthors-ching-dee","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55581","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=55581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55581\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}