{"id":85565,"date":"2017-01-17T17:47:17","date_gmt":"2017-01-17T22:47:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=85565"},"modified":"2017-01-17T17:47:17","modified_gmt":"2017-01-17T22:47:17","slug":"ejercito-to-lp-senators-stay-or-leave-supermajority","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/01\/17\/ejercito-to-lp-senators-stay-or-leave-supermajority\/","title":{"rendered":"Ejercito to LP senators: Stay or leave ‘supermajority’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Sen. Joseph Victor “JV” Ejercito (Pictured) on Tuesday asked senators belonging to the Liberal Party (LP) to make a decision whether to stay in the Senate supermajority bloc or transfer to the minority (Photo: JV Ejercito\/ Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

MANILA \u2013Sen. Joseph Victor “JV” Ejercito on Tuesday asked senators belonging to the Liberal Party (LP) to make a decision whether to stay in the Senate supermajority bloc or transfer to the minority.<\/p>\n

Ejercito made this remark after noticing how the LP senators usually voted against the majority bloc in making decisions in plenary sessions.<\/p>\n

All five of the LP senators namely Paolo Benigno \u201cBam\u201d Aquino, Leila de Lima, Franklin Drilon, Risa Hontiveros, and Francis \u201cKiko\u201d Pangilinan joined the majority bloc.<\/p>\n

“They’re the majority but most of the time they vote against the majority,” Ejercito told reporters in an interview.<\/p>\n

“You cannot just go on that\u2026join the benefits of being in the majority but on the same time we are also attacking and hitting and going against the majority.”<\/p>\n

He said that the lines should be drawn in terms of the LP senator\u2019s membership in the majority bloc.<\/p>\n

The senator meanwhile reiterated support for Pres. Rodrigo Duterte and Senate President Aquilino \u201cKoko\u201d Pimentel III, both members of the Partido Demokratiko Pilipino-Lakas ng Bayan (PDP-Laban) party.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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