{"id":87498,"date":"2017-02-01T17:16:44","date_gmt":"2017-02-01T22:16:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=87498"},"modified":"2017-02-01T17:16:44","modified_gmt":"2017-02-01T22:16:44","slug":"es-medialdea-to-head-edsa-peoples-power-commission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/02\/01\/es-medialdea-to-head-edsa-peoples-power-commission\/","title":{"rendered":"ES Medialdea to head EDSA People\u2019s Power Commission"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_87499\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-87499\" style=\"width: 703px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/10730890_10152857511197220_3093615360243937062_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-87499\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/10730890_10152857511197220_3093615360243937062_n.jpg\" alt=\"Presidential Spokesman Ernesto Abella said on Wednesday that 31st EDSA People\u2019s Power Anniversary will be celebrated this year with Executive Secretary Salvador Medialdea (Pictured) as head of the EDSA People\u2019s Power Commission. (Photo: Salvador Medialdea\/ Facebook)\" width=\"703\" height=\"703\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/10730890_10152857511197220_3093615360243937062_n.jpg 703w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/10730890_10152857511197220_3093615360243937062_n-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/10730890_10152857511197220_3093615360243937062_n-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 703px) 100vw, 703px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-87499\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Presidential Spokesman Ernesto Abella said on Wednesday that 31st EDSA People\u2019s Power Anniversary will be celebrated this year with Executive Secretary Salvador Medialdea (Pictured) as head of the EDSA People\u2019s Power Commission. (Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/salvador.medialdea?fref=ts\">Salvador Medialdea\/ Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA \u2013Presidential Spokesman Ernesto Abella said on Wednesday that 31st EDSA People\u2019s Power Anniversary will be celebrated this year with Executive Secretary Salvador Medialdea as head of the EDSA People\u2019s Power Commission.<\/p>\n<p>\u201dWe mark this year\u2019s celebration of the EDSA People\u2019s Power Anniversary on the 25th of February as \u201cA Day of Reflection: Celebrating People Power,\u201d Abella said in a text message to Palace reporters.<\/p>\n<p>Abella said Medialdea\u2019s co-chair will come from private sector \u201cthat still needs to be discussed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The commission was also headed by former Executive Secretary Pacquito Ochoa.<\/p>\n<p>The Philippines earned the world\u2019s accolade in 1986 following a bloodless revolution that ended the 20-year authoritarian regime of President Ferdinand Marcos.<\/p>\n<p>The country will be celebrating EDSA People\u2019s Power anniversary for the first time under President Rodrigo Duterte.<\/p>\n<p>Living up to his election campaign promise, President Duterte has allowed Marcos to be finally buried at the Libingan ng mga Bayani on Nov. 8 last year despite strong opposition from martial law victims.<\/p>\n<p>President Duterte, a lawyer, said Marcos may not be a hero but the law allows the former strongman\u2019s burial at the Libingan ng mga Bayani being a former soldier.<\/p>\n<p>Supreme Court (SC) has actually junked seven consolidated petitions against Marcos\u2019s burial at the LNMB.<\/p>\n<p>Marcos died on September 28, 1989 while in exile Honolulu, Hawaii.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA \u2013Presidential Spokesman Ernesto Abella said on Wednesday that 31st EDSA People\u2019s Power Anniversary will be celebrated this year with &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":87499,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[14503,14504],"class_list":["post-87498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","tag-edsa-peoples-power","tag-executive-secretary-salvador-medialdea","mauthors-jelly-f-musico","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87498","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=87498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87498\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}