{"id":55975,"date":"2015-07-17T20:15:06","date_gmt":"2015-07-17T12:15:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=55975"},"modified":"2015-07-17T20:16:36","modified_gmt":"2015-07-17T12:16:36","slug":"coloma-term-limits-set-to-prevent-abuse-of-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/07\/17\/coloma-term-limits-set-to-prevent-abuse-of-power\/","title":{"rendered":"Coloma: Term limits set to prevent abuse of power"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_40378\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-40378\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/sonny-coloma-4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-40378\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/sonny-coloma-4-300x242.jpg\" alt=\"Communications Secretary Sonny Coloma (Photo: Presidential Communications Operation Office)\" width=\"300\" height=\"242\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/sonny-coloma-4-300x242.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/sonny-coloma-4.jpg 666w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-40378\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Communications Secretary Sonny Coloma (Photo: Presidential Communications Operation Office)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA &#8212; Term limits imposed on elected officials was instituted to prevent abuse of power, Vice President Jejomar Binay was told.<\/p>\n<p>Communications Secretary Herminio &#8220;Sonny&#8221; Coloma Jr. said the term limits were enacted following the proliferation of human rights abuses during the term of former President Ferdinand Marcos.<\/p>\n<p>Marcos ran for reelection and stayed in power for 20 years by declaring martial law.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPinaka-mahalaga \u2018yung nag-iisang termino ng Pangulo at kailangan marinig ang tinig ng mga Boss (Filipino people) hinggil dito,\u201d he said in a text message to media.<\/p>\n<p>(The term limit on the President is the most important and we need to hear the opinion of the Filipino people.)<\/p>\n<p>Binay earlier said that he will\u00a0seek for the lifting of the term limits as he believe that officials should be elected as long as the people vote for them.<\/p>\n<p>Deputy Presidential Spokesperson Abigail Valte also said that the President has earlier raised concerns against lifting the term limit.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe has expressed this many times as lifting terms limits opens the door to dictators who can abuse the resources of the State to stay in power, which was precisely the concern of the framers of the 1987 Constitution,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDoing away with term limits may also make it easier for families with dynastic inclinations to perpetuate themselves in office,\u201d Valte added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA &#8212; Term limits imposed on elected officials was instituted to prevent abuse of power, Vice President Jejomar Binay was &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":40378,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55975","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\/55975","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=55975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55975\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}