{"id":70295,"date":"2016-02-09T04:23:01","date_gmt":"2016-02-09T09:23:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=70295"},"modified":"2016-02-09T04:23:01","modified_gmt":"2016-02-09T09:23:01","slug":"seneres-death-saddened-his-colleagues-and-co-candidates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2016\/02\/09\/seneres-death-saddened-his-colleagues-and-co-candidates\/","title":{"rendered":"Se\u00f1eres&#8217; death saddened his colleagues and co-candidates"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_70296\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-70296\" style=\"width: 894px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/12184033_123239541370923_295888817259902703_o.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-70296\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-70296\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/12184033_123239541370923_295888817259902703_o.jpg\" alt=\"Overseas Filipino Workers' Club party-list Rep. Roy Se\u00f1eres died on Monday due to cardiac arrest and complications from diabetes (Facebook photo)\" width=\"894\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/12184033_123239541370923_295888817259902703_o.jpg 894w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/12184033_123239541370923_295888817259902703_o-279x300.jpg 279w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/12184033_123239541370923_295888817259902703_o-768x825.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 894px) 100vw, 894px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-70296\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Overseas Filipino Workers&#8217; Club party-list Rep. Roy Se\u00f1eres, 68, died on Monday due to cardiac arrest and complications from diabetes (Facebook photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">MANILA &#8211; Days after withdrawing the presidential bid, Overseas Filipino Workers Club party-list Rep. Roy Se\u00f1eres passed away on Monday morning.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Se\u00f1eres withdrew his presidential bid on Friday, few hours after the Commission on Elections announced the final list of official presidential candidates. His decision was due to his health condition.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Se\u00f1eres\u2019 death saddened his colleagues and co-candidates. House Speaker Feliciano \u201cSonny\u201d Belmonte Jr., Sens. Grace Poe, Francis \u201cChiz\u201d Escudero, and Ferdinand \u201cBongbong\u201d Marcos, and Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte, and the Commission of Elections sent their condolences and prayers for his family.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The late representative\u2019s death shocked the officials. In lieu of his death, his colleagues and co-candidates recognized his contributions and accomplishments of the late ambassador who aimed to provide better working conditions for local workers and OFWs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Grace Poe and Francis Escudero said that Se\u00f1eres is a great loss to the labor sector especially to OFWs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Se\u00f1eres died of cardiac arrest at the age of 68, and it was triggered by his complications from diabetes.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA &#8211; Days after withdrawing the presidential bid, Overseas Filipino Workers Club party-list Rep. Roy Se\u00f1eres passed away on Monday &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":70296,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,16,95],"tags":[9230],"class_list":["post-70295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-news","category-news-ph","tag-uploads","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70295","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=70295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70295\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}