🚨PBBM to the Senators: GET BACK TO WORK!
This is what he said in this interview:
1. Get back to work. Get back to work because it's important. Ang dami nating kailangan gawin.
We had a meeting sa UPLIFT Committee and marami tayong kailangan pagawa sa mga batas, mga batas na we were thinking na baka magka-supplemental budget, baka magka- amendahan namin ang mga ibang batas.
Ito ay kailangan para makapagbigay tayo ng tulong sa taong bayan dahil nga sa oil crisis.
Kung walang session, hindi ko nga maintindihan eh dahil ang pagkakaintindi ko is that ang rules — nag-congressman naman ako, nag-senador din naman ako.
Ang rules diyan bago ka mag-cancel ng session, you have to inform the other house three days before you cancel a session and there has to be a very good reason for canceling a session.
2. I don't think na ihahatid mo ang isang senador para pumunta kung saan siya pupunta, hindi yata sapat na dahilan para i-cancel ang isang session. Isang session lang 'yun.
Ngayon, kanselado na naman ang isang session. Hindi ko nga maintindihan kung papaano sila magtatrabaho kung ganito.
Ang House of Representatives ngayon ay nagtataka kung papaano ba, nagbago na ba ‘yung rules, nagbago na ba 'yung mga patakaran natin kagaya ng mga nakaraan?
It is a rule that is contained in the Constitution.
3. I'm afraid all these events that we have been witnessing has thrown the Senate and its leadership, the whole Senate, into disarray.
It has discredited the leadership and it has stopped the essential business of legislation in government.
The two other departments continue to work. The Executive continues to work. The Judiciary continues to work.
Why does the Legislature decide to stop working? I don't understand that.
I talked to my fellow senators at the time I was senator and we cannot figure out bakit magkakaganto, anong nangyari, paano tayo napunta rito.
4. The best description I can have is that the Legislature is now in disarray. But that is exactly the opposite from what we are trying to achieve.
We are trying to achieve some form of stability so that people can get on with their lives, so that people can plan ahead for their future, so that people can count on the assistance of government during this time of an emergency.
And we cannot do that if the Legislature decides to stay at home and have a vacation.
That is anathema to everything that governance is about.
5. I never imagined in my entire life, in my entire political life, that such a thing could happen, especially to the august — it's no longer august now — to the august body of the upper house, the Senate of the Philippines.
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O, hindi porke't umatend si Chiz kaya nagkaroon ng quorum ang Senate, ligtas na siya sa flood control scam ha. Kung may warrant, ikulong din 'yan. Ganun dapat.
Anim na buwan na hindi nagtrabaho habang sumisweldo. Tapos ngayon naman gustong mag-fulltime na work from home?
Hiyang-hiya naman ang mga minimum wage earners sa Pilipinas sa’yo, Sen!
Taumbayan ang nagpapa-sweldo sainyo. Kahit konting kahihiyan man lang sana.
“Marami sa’tin di narerealize na ganon kafar-reaching ang effect kung mag-away away sila sa senado —— hindi naman sila-sila lang yun di ba, ang epekto non hanggang sa laylayan, hanggang sa magsasaka.”
humors na hindi dapat i-adapt:
1. excessive idolization of politicians
2. being apolitical
3. maging out of touch at gawing opportunity ang nangyayari ngayon para magpa giveaway ng phone for clout
All this chaos.
Just to protect the Dutertes and their allies.
The country has sacrificed too much—our institutions, our democracy, and far too many lives—for the survival of people who believe they are above accountability.
‘ALL THIS FOR A MAN WHO SIMPLY DOESN’T WANT TO FACE THE LAW’
Sen. Risa Hontiveros pushed back against attempts to link minority senators to the Senate incident, saying the narrative being spread is politically motivated.
“There is only one reason some bad faith actors are trying very hard to make this controversial event about me and other Minority senators and the times we went home. All this for a man who simply doesn’t want to face the law. That’s it. That’s the whole story,” she said.
Hontiveros stressed that Senate employees had already gone home and that she was in the province for a scheduled engagement, rejecting what she described as politicization of routine movements.
She also called for accountability and urged Sen. Ronald Dela Rosa to cooperate with authorities, saying the public deserves a full, independent and transparent accounting of the incident.
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