{"id":90704,"date":"2017-02-22T02:31:42","date_gmt":"2017-02-22T07:31:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=90704"},"modified":"2017-02-22T02:31:42","modified_gmt":"2017-02-22T07:31:42","slug":"sen-aquino-respects-palace-decision-to-hold-simple-edsa-rites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/02\/22\/sen-aquino-respects-palace-decision-to-hold-simple-edsa-rites\/","title":{"rendered":"Sen. Aquino respects Palace decision to hold simple EDSA rites"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u201cAng celebration ng People Power ay nasa taumbayan. Hindi iyan pagmamay-ari ng isang tao o isang pamilya (The celebration of People Power belongs to the people. It is not owned by one person or one family),\u201d Aquino said in a TV interview. (Photo: Bam Aquino\/ Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

MANILA \u2013Sen. Paolo Benigno Aquino IV on Wednesday said he respects the decision of Malaca\u00f1ang to hold a \u201csimple and sober\u201d commemoration of the 31st anniversary of the EDSA People Power Revolution.<\/p>\n

Aquino, nephew of the late Sen. Benigno Aquino Jr. whose death sparked the revolution, said that even if the rites were simple, it is up to the people to celebrate it in their own way to keep its memory alive.<\/p>\n

\u201cAng celebration ng People Power ay nasa taumbayan. Hindi iyan pagmamay-ari ng isang tao o isang pamilya (The celebration of People Power belongs to the people. It is not owned by one person or one family),\u201d Aquino said in a TV interview.<\/p>\n

\u201cMaraming iba\u2019t-ibang mga bagay kung paano maaaring ipagdiwang ng taumbayan ang okasyon (There are many ways for the people to celebrate the occasion),\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Aquino, meanwhile, said that even 31 years after the historic event that toppled the dictatorship of the late Pres. Ferdinand Marcos, the fight against corruption and threat to democracy remains.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re still fighting against corruption. Marami pa ring mga nangyayaring hindi dapat mangyari pagdating sa korapsyon (There are still things happening that should not be happening when it comes to corruption),\u201d Aquino said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re fighting for democracy. We\u2019re fighting for people to be able to speak up. Before, they were fighting for press freedom,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

The senator said that dissent resulted in better policy and that it should be encouraged.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe should allow for these democratic spaces, especially this week na inaalala natin ang EDSA (especially this week that we commemorate EDSA),\u201d he further said.<\/p>\n

Malaca\u00f1ang earlier assured that the \u201csimple and sober\u201d EDSA rites does not mean that the administration of Pres. Rodrigo Duterte is giving less significance to the historic event.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt does not indicate that the present administration or the EPPC (EDSA People Power Commission) is giving less significance to the celebration of 31st anniversary,\u201d Senior deputy executive secretary Menardo Gueverra said.<\/p>\n

Gueverra was representing Executive Secretary Salvador Medialdea, who was tasked by Pres. Duterte as head of the EPPC, the lead agency in preparing for the EDSA celebrations.<\/p>\n

In lieu of the pomp and fanfare that has accompanied past commemorations, Guevarra said that the government has instead lined up a program that is simple enough but indicative of this year\u2019s theme: \u201cA Day of Reflection.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a time to settle down, to quiet a bit, and think of what has happened over the past 30 years. Do we still have that spirit of EDSA within our hearts? Have we done things that are supposed to guide us after that momentous event in our history?\u201d the senior official said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

MANILA \u2013Sen. Paolo Benigno Aquino IV on Wednesday said he respects the decision of Malaca\u00f1ang to hold a \u201csimple and …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":90707,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[15600,490],"class_list":["post-90704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","tag-edsa-people-power-revolution","tag-people-power","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90704","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=90704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90704\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}