JOINT STATEMENT ON THE SENATE MINORITY WALKOUT
We strongly condemn what appears to be an attempt to rush a major change in the Senate Rules, especially when several members of the minority still wanted to speak and raise serious questions on the floor.
Bakit kailangang madaliin? Bakit kailangang pigilan ang mga gustong magsalita? Bakit kailangang i-divide ang house kung marami pang senador ang nagtatanong tungkol sa proseso?
Minamadali ba ang rule change na ito dahil gusto nilang maka boto si Senator Bato? At ngayong may mga ulat na may mga majority senators na maaaring arestuhin?
We walked out because what happened on the floor looked less like orderly deliberation. The proposed rule change affects how senators may attend sessions, participate in proceedings and exercise their mandate through remote means, and such a measure should be opened to healthy public debate instead of being rushed by the tyranny of the majority.
We have always welcomed healthy discussions on the floor, but this should mean allowing all members to be heard, not forcing the chamber to move at the speed preferred by the majority.
At the time the motion was taken up, there was no duly constituted Committee on Rules and there was not even an elected Majority Leader who could properly guide a rules amendment through the regular process.
How could there have been any action or discussion before the Committee on Rules when no Committee on Rules has been organized to date?
With due respect, the answer that no Senate rule had been violated does not settle the matter, because the rules cannot be treated as a matter of convenience when the very process for amending them is under serious question.
The timing raises a question that the public deserves to hear debated openly. Kaya pinili naming tumayo at iwan ang majority sa plenary. Kaya kami nagdesisyon to question the quorum and call for adjournment.
If the proposal is truly defensible, then let it pass through the proper route.
We owe it to the people who voted for us to do our mandate. This is why we want more time to discuss this further.
Prof Winnie Monsod, despite witnessing lahat simula 1986 people power revolution, hindi napagod at lumalaban pa rin ngayon, tapos karamihan sa atin, na bumoboses lang online, lalo na 'yang mga "influencers" kuno, nagrereklamo na pagod na raw at maging apolitical na lang? Haha 🤣
someone tweeted na baka kaya daw pinoprotektahan ng dds senators si bato kase alam nilang bobo si bato at baka isang tanong lang (from icc), umamin na agad at ireveal lahat ng ginawa nila. TANGJNA TOTOO NGA 😭😭😭😭
: so every single one of the three & a half thousand ppl who was killed was a drug dealer?
: yes!
: how do we know that? u didnt trial them. u didnt prosecute them. u didnt charge them. u shot them on sight. thats not a democratic way of solving crime
SUPALPAL SI ALAN CAYETANO
Tandaan: ang mga nagtaas ng kamay sila ang lagi nasasangkot sa mga alegasyon ng korapsyon. Hindi ito tungkol sa tamang prinsipyo. Tungko ito sa patuloy na panggagago sa mga Pilipino!
I would like us to renew our hope that #peace is possible! From the Holy Sepulchre, the Church of the Resurrection, where this year #Easter is being celebrated by Catholics and Orthodox on the same day, may the light of peace radiate throughout the Holy Land and the entire world.
Maraming salamat, Darren Espanto at MJ Arda sa kanta at dance moves ng #KikoSaPusoKo 🎶🙂 Sali din kayo sa #KikoSaPusoKo dance challenge na ito, para mai-share natin ang ating kampanya sa mas marami!
Excited po akong mapanood ang entries niyong lahat!💚
#TapatAtTotoo
#KikoSaSenado2025
#51PangilinanKiko
Hindi man nila ako kasama sa kanilang pagrampa
Alam kong isasama nyo ako
Sa inyong Balota!
Wala man akong makinarya
Kayo ang magpakilala
Sa abang lingkod ninyong
Nangahas pasukin ang pulitika!
Hindi ako pulitiko
Lingkod Bayan ako
Walang partido
Subalit andyan kayo!
#45Mendoza
Tama po kayo,
Hindi naman kung mahalal ako ay hihinto ang korupsyon.
Pero yung maipakita mo
Na hindi ka korap,
Na hindi ka tumatanggap
Na hindi ka nasusuhulan…
Yan po ay malaking bagay!
Dyan po tumitiklop
Ang mga baluktot!
#45HeidiMendoza
NO FEAR, ONLY FAITH.
Ngayong 2025, buong tapang, paniniwala, at pananampalataya nating haharapin ang isang malaking hamon para sa bayan.
May pagkakataon tayong baguhin ang direksyon ng ating bayan. May pagkakataon tayong baguhin ang direksyon ng ating mga buhay. Sama-sama tayo sa pagbabago at tagumpay!
Happy 2025 sa ating lahat!
Yung ibinayad kong tax, napunta pala sa patronage politics. Ano ang patronage politics? Ito ang pinapamudmod ng mga pulitiko na ayuda. Ang kinalabasan, lalabas na Bayani ang mga pulitiko sa harap ng mga mahihirap. Tamang-tama sa darating na election, may pamigay sila sa mga dukha na kuntento na sa 500 pesos. Ang sistema, tayong mga taxpayer ang gumastos, para sa kampanya nila.
Paalala: Ang tax po natin ay dapat ibalik sa atin sa pamamagitan ng serbisyo (philhealth, infrastructure atbp) at hindi dapat para sa PAMUDMOD para sa kampanya nila.
ANG GALING NG STRATEGY ANO PO?