{"id":62591,"date":"2015-10-07T21:02:25","date_gmt":"2015-10-07T13:02:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=62591"},"modified":"2015-10-07T21:06:38","modified_gmt":"2015-10-07T13:06:38","slug":"tolentino-begs-off-from-lp-senate-slate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/10\/07\/tolentino-begs-off-from-lp-senate-slate\/","title":{"rendered":"Tolentino begs off from LP Senate slate"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_14267\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14267\" style=\"width: 585px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/MMDA-Francis-Tolentino-e1408970189770.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14267\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/MMDA-Francis-Tolentino-e1408970189770.jpg\" alt=\"MMDA Chairman Francis Tolentino (Photo from MMDA's official Facebook page)\" width=\"585\" height=\"403\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/MMDA-Francis-Tolentino-e1408970189770.jpg 585w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/MMDA-Francis-Tolentino-e1408970189770-300x206.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 585px) 100vw, 585px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-14267\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">MMDA Chairman Francis Tolentino (Photo from MMDA&#8217;s official Facebook page)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA \u2013 Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) Chairman Francis Tolentino asked the ruling Liberal Party (LP) to exclude him from the political party\u2019s list of senatorial candidates in next year\u2019s national elections.<\/p>\n<p>Tolentino released the statement after being flacked over a controversial dance at a congressman\u2019s birthday party held last week. He also apologized to various women\u2019s groups which have reacted negatively on the lewd performance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>Ipinapaabot ko sa Partido Liberal na alisin na ang pangalan ko sa kino-consider nilang lineup sa pagka-senador sa 2016<\/em>,\u201d the traffic czar said.<\/p>\n<p>(I\u2019m urging the Liberal Party to remove my name among those they have been considering for their 2016 senatorial lineup.)<\/p>\n<p>Tolentino earlier expressed interest in running for senator in the coming general elections. He has then been considered by the LP as among its senatorial bets.<\/p>\n<p>However, the recent controversial dance by all-female group \u201cPlaygirls\u201d raised questions on his principles and worthiness as a government official.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Still joining senatorial race<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On the same day he begged off from the LP\u2019s senatorial lineup, Tolentino also signed his resignation letter as the MMDA chairman and has been set to deliver his letter to President Benigno \u201cNoynoy\u201d Aquino III.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDumating na ang panahon na ako ay umalis na para lumahok sa mas mataas na antas ng paglilingkod sa bayan ngayong 2016 (The time has come for me to resign and seek higher office this 2016),\u201d he told reporters.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSamahan po ninyo ako sa 2016 (Please join me in 2016),\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA \u2013 Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) Chairman Francis Tolentino asked the ruling Liberal Party (LP) to exclude him from &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":14267,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,1145,16,95,483],"tags":[249],"class_list":["post-62591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","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\/62591","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=62591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62591\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}