{"id":85737,"date":"2017-01-18T18:45:38","date_gmt":"2017-01-18T23:45:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=85737"},"modified":"2017-01-18T18:45:38","modified_gmt":"2017-01-18T23:45:38","slug":"senate-majority-still-intact-pimentel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/01\/18\/senate-majority-still-intact-pimentel\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate majority still intact \u2013 Pimentel"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Senate President Aquilino \u201cKoko\u201d Pimentel III (Pictured) on Wednesday assured that the Senate super majority is still intact despite some differences on political issues. (Photo: Koko Pimentel\/ Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

MANILA \u2013Senate President Aquilino \u201cKoko\u201d Pimentel III on Wednesday assured that the Senate super majority is still intact despite some differences on political issues.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe point is one member of the majority is not the majority,\u201d Pimentel told reporters in an interview after a colleague expressed concern that senators in the majority bloc who were members of the Liberal Party (LP) would usually vote against the majority.<\/p>\n

Sen. Joseph Victor “JV” Ejercito on Tuesday asked LP senators to make a decision whether to stay in the Senate super majority bloc or transfer to the minority.<\/p>\n

Ejercito said it was not fair for LP senators to enjoy the \u201cbenefits of being in the majority but on the same time we are also attacking and hitting and going against the majority.\u201d<\/p>\n

Pimentel, however, said that after having a word with Ejercito, the latter admitted that he made a slight mistake in his recent comment.<\/p>\n

The Senate President said that what mattered was that senators belonging to the majority bloc were not divided in \u201csubstance\u201d and instead had \u201ca common legislative agenda\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cPero huwag kami dapat maghati-hati sa substance ng aming common legislative agenda of the majority. Kapag doon kami nagkahati-hati, it is time to rethink why we are together. (But we in the majority should not be divided in substance of our common legislative agenda. If that is where we don\u2019t agree, it is time to rethink why we are together),\u201d Pimentel said.<\/p>\n

Ejercito\u2019s comment came after most LP senators voted to reconsider a committee referral of a resolution to possibly overhaul the Bureau of Immigration (BI).<\/p>\n

Pimentel said that \u201csome division\u201d was still acceptable within the majority.<\/p>\n

\u201cI can accept some division even within the majority. So don’t worry, the majority is intact, as far as the substance is concerned,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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