This is one of 2 recourses, when you settled for the crumbs after being dangled with juicy meat in exchange for your remaining moral fiber and now caught in the middle of no return. The other is to just gv up. She opted for the former. She’s a butterfly trapped in her own cocoon.
‘SI LOREN LEGARDA PO, ANG INYONG SENATE PRESIDENT PRO TEMPORE’
Senator Loren Legarda insists that she is still the Senate President Pro Tempore in a video statement she released on Saturday.
“Sa kabila ng aking paggalang sa aking mga kasamahan, labag sa Konstitusyon at alituntunin ng Senado ang nangyaring pagtatalaga ng Senate President Pro Tempore, Senate Secretary at Sergeant-at-Arms dahil labindalawang senador lamang ang nasa plenaryo na bumoto,” she said.
Last Wednesday, with 12 senators attending the plenary, they elected Senator Win Gatchalian as Senate President Pro Tempore and acting Senate President.
“Ang Konstitusyon ang gabay ng ating demokrasya. Ito ang dapat nating ipaglaban para sa Senado, para sa ating mga institusyon, at higit sa lahat, para sa bawat Pilipino. Si Loren Legarda po, ang inyong Senate President Pro Tempore,” she added. (Facebook/Loren Legarda)
@imtristansicat I still remember how he would reply so unstatemanlike on socmed when bashed. He sounded & was a Du30 enabler, but I'd like to think that what he saw evolving in d Senate today, and him now almost at the top post, has enlightened him to stay and be on the right side of history.
@DWAR1494 Hmmmm, reading between the lines. He didn't admit that he decided to be part of the now new majority. His body language then sure was consistent with this non-answer to the question.
Though we cheer on the Tulfos style of resolve and welcome in our dreams them physically putting APC in his rightful place, let’s also cautiously remind them to do this w/in the bounds of law. Otherwise it wl just be a minimized Duterte 2.0 w/c we repeatedly called out then.
Let's disabuse ourselves from believing that those who will join the Gatchalian bloc are moved by the Holy Spirit.
In reality, any defection from the Cayetano bloc is a confluence of realpolitik,ultra-pragmatism, & a profound need for self-preservation.
Walang santo sa kanila!
Marcoleta and APC, look what you've done? You just unleased the Tulfo in hime! You don't push his buttons and end up with nothing. Abangan ang showdown sa Lunes!
Sen. Erwin Tulfo on Friday said that he will order the arrest of senators who will hold a hearing of the Senate Blue Ribbon Committee other than the one he would preside over as chairman.
"I don't care kung dati kang Senate President, dati kang Speaker of the House...talagang papahuli kita. Kung hindi papahuli, kung ayaw ng OSAA, bibitbitin kita, kukwelyuhan kita, palalayasin kita diyan sa floor na 'yan," Tulfo said.
Read more: https://t.co/L5p5ncB2Ck
A petition for certiorari was filed before the Supreme Court on Friday, seeking to review the actions of Senators Alan Peter Cayetano, Pia Cayetano, and Loren Legarda to “determine whether they committed grave abuse of discretion” following recent events in Senate.
In his 20-page petition, senior high school teacher Barry Tayam wants SC to declare the session of the 12 senators last June 3 “legally valid and binding”. | via Ched Gatchalian, https://t.co/9R0Mcay5im
@iskrukutoy Dapat kay Trillanes po sila nakinig, na sa huli pag nagkaipitan na iiwan lang sila sa era pag nagamit na sila. Pinarami lang nila kaso nila ngayon
Imagine ah:
✅ 3 Former Senate Presidents with 8 years of experience in total being as Senate Presidents has spoken that it is lawful and within the Rules of The Senate
✅ The Lower House of Congress (House of Representatives) recognizing its lawfulness
✅ The Malacañang Palace (Executive) recognizing its lawfulness
✅ A landmark Supreme Court precedent that was used multiple times in the Senate Plenary
✅ The Integrated Bar of The Philippines saying its lawful
Ano pa ba kulang para paniwalaan ng lahat na quorum can be 12, if the active Senate membership is 23.
@wateralwayswet Pia just showed the look of a worn-out loser still desperately clinging to a tiny rope of redemption. You can visibly see that she know it’s end game for them. Give it up Pia!