{"id":73970,"date":"2016-04-10T10:07:05","date_gmt":"2016-04-10T14:07:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=73970"},"modified":"2025-01-08T23:01:12","modified_gmt":"2025-01-09T04:01:12","slug":"cayetano-willing-agenda-setter-elected-vp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2016\/04\/10\/cayetano-willing-agenda-setter-elected-vp\/","title":{"rendered":"Cayetano willing to be agenda setter if elected VP"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_73971\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-73971\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/12986944_1042104182549029_2368355576805244072_n.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-73971\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-73971\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/12986944_1042104182549029_2368355576805244072_n.jpg\" alt=\"Vice-presidential candidate Alan Peter Cayetano at the first vice-presidential PiliPinas Debates. (Photo: Alan Peter Cayetano\/Facebook)\" width=\"960\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/12986944_1042104182549029_2368355576805244072_n.jpg 960w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/12986944_1042104182549029_2368355576805244072_n-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/12986944_1042104182549029_2368355576805244072_n-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-73971\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vice-presidential candidate Alan Peter Cayetano at the first vice-presidential PiliPinas Debates.<br \/>(Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/alanpetercayetano\" target=\"_blank\">Alan Peter Cayetano\/Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA\u2014If elected as vice president in the May 9 elections, Senator Alan Peter Cayetano has said he will not ask for any Cabinet post and instead will be contented to act as the agenda setter of his president.<\/p>\n<p>He made this statement during the vice presidential debate which was held at the University of Santo Tomas (UST) in Manila on Sunday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Aside from Cayetano, other presidential aspirants present in the debate were Senators Francis &#8220;Chiz&#8221; Escudero, Gregorio Honasan II, Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. and Antonio Trillanes IV, and Camarines Sur Rep. Leni Robredo.<\/p>\n<p>By acting as agenda setter, Cayetano said he will see to it that all the platforms of his president, which in his case is PDP-Laban standard-bearer Rodrigo Duterte, are being followed and implemented.<\/p>\n<p>He expressed confidence that he will be able to do this as exemplified by playing a key role in several corruption scandals investigated by the Senate.<\/p>\n<p>Cayetano said that he will push for federalism as this is the only answer to the Mindanao problems.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSabi nga ni Mayor Duterte, na aking pinaniniwalaan, nothing short of federalism can solve the problems in Mindanao,\u201d he stressed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAng pederalismo lamang ang kayang magbuklod sa lahat ng sektor.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy wellbutrin online <a href=\"https:\/\/eyecaremarshfield.com\/contactsus\/html\/wellbutrin.html\">https:\/\/eyecaremarshfield.com\/contactsus\/html\/wellbutrin.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p> Ang hindi lang pumapayag dito ay ang mga nakikinabang sa sistema ngayon,\u201d the senator added.<\/p>\n<p>Back in January, presidential aspirant Senator Grace Poe and Escudero rejected Duterte\u2019s and Cayetano&#8217;s call for federalism.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy ventolin online <a href=\"https:\/\/eyecaremarshfield.com\/contactsus\/html\/ventolin.html\">https:\/\/eyecaremarshfield.com\/contactsus\/html\/ventolin.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>They said that it would not work well in the Philippine setup, a statement which Cayetano dubbed as a \u201cclassic Manila-centric\u201d attitude.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The very essence of federalism is to ensure that growth and prosperity are spread to every part of the Philippines, not just in Manila.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy tirzepatide online <a href=\"https:\/\/eyecaremarshfield.com\/contactsus\/html\/tirzepatide.html\">https:\/\/eyecaremarshfield.com\/contactsus\/html\/tirzepatide.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p> It&#8217;s a pity that Senators Poe and Escudero are against this. Kawawa naman ang ibang parte ng bansa kung sila ang mamumuno,&#8221; Cayetano earlier said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u2014If elected as vice president in the May 9 elections, Senator Alan Peter Cayetano has said he will not ask &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":73971,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,16,95],"tags":[3374,8395,1786,343,9893,4134,10119],"class_list":["post-73970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-news","category-news-ph","tag-alan-peter-cayetano","tag-cayetano","tag-election","tag-philippines","tag-pilipinas-debates","tag-vice-president","tag-vice-presidential-debate","mauthors-priam-f-nepomuceno","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73970","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=73970"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":281318,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73970\/revisions\/281318"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}