🚨 LIVE: Alan Pinocchio Cayetano says pinatayan sila ng wifi and the hearing is not being aired on the Senate website or livestream.
Wala sya sinabi about aircon.
Swerte ka pa APC kasi ikaw aircon at wifi pinapatay mo.
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I refuse to support a law that effectively institutionalizes political dynasties!
I vote NO to House Bill No. 8389 or the “Anti-Political Dynasty Act.”
HB 8389 is not a true or genuine anti-dynasty law, but rather a dynasty legitimization act.
First: The bill has no succession ban. A governor can be succeeded by a spouse, who can be succeeded by a child, who can be succeeded by a sibling – indefinitely, legally, under this bill.
Second: The bill permits a governor, a mayor, and a Representative from the same family governing the same province simultaneously, as it only prohibits relatives from holding office within the same level of government, not within the same territory.
Third: The bill permits multiple congressional districts controlled by one family within the same province. Three adjacent districts, three relatives, all voting for the same party line: legal. Exactly as it operates today. Nothing changes.
Fourth: The bill neither covers party-list representatives as protected positions nor references incumbents. Therefore, a senator's son or daughter can be nominated and serve as a party-list representative – perfectly legal under this bill
Fifth: The bill limits the prohibition to relatives within the second degree of consanguinity or affinity, covering spouses, parents, children, and siblings. However, this second-degree prohibition excludes broader kinship networks, such as grandparents, first cousins, uncles, aunts, nieces, and nephews, through which dynastic power is often exercised. Limiting the prohibition to only the second degree narrows the reach of the law and allows extended family networks, which remain close-knit in Philippine culture, to continue operating within the same political sphere.
Sixth: The bill does not address, hence, permits substitution, caretaker designation, and every indirect route to office. The prohibition under this bill covers only direct candidacy, not the back doors.
The Filipino people have been waiting for this law since 1987. Tatlumpu't siyam na taon.
We can do better than this. We can pass a law worthy of the wait. A law the framers of the 1987 Constitution would recognize as the fulfillment of their mandate, not a betrayal of it.
I vote NO to HB 8389, not because I oppose anti-dynasty legislation. I vote NO precisely because I support it. I refuse to support a law that effectively institutionalizes political dynasties.
The Filipino people deserve better. The Constitution demands better. We can do better.
UPDATE: Acting Senate President Sherwin Gatchalian says he will preside over the impeachment trial of Vice President Sara Duterte. #VPSaraOnTrial | via @RG_Cruz12479
Generally, the Senate of the Philippines needs a majority of its members to form a quorum.
Since the Senate has 24 senators, that usually means 13 senators are required under Article VI, Section 16(2) of the 1987 Constitution.
However, there is an important exception based on the Supreme Court case Avelino vs. Cuenco. In that ruling, the Court said that if some senators are effectively unavailable or beyond the chamber’s coercive authority (for example detained, abroad, or otherwise unable to attend), they may not be counted in determining the quorum.
In this case - 2 senators are already unavailable: Sen Bato who is currently in hiding and Sen Jinggoy who is in custody.
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After that one #Xicheng design for the acrylic, my best friend asked me to make her all 3 other seasons for XiCheng to show timeline of their relationship <3 and it was a really cute idea i cant resist... and plus it was too much fun to do, dedicated to @NatalToran#魔道祖师