Wednesday, March 1, 2017

Former President Benigno Aquino III attends a closed-door meeting of LP members on Tuesday.

LP Senate President Kiko Pangilinan was not surprise about the down full of the 4 LP senators in the major commitee and replace with other senators in the Pres. Duterte side. We all know that the LP senator is a member of the majority coalition or hindrance of President Rodrigo Duterte's plan for his Administration.
But the fate of the coaliton is now in limbo after a shakeup in the Senate on Monday March 6, 2017.
Three LP senators and an ally lost their key Senate positions.
Ralph Recto replaces Frankin Drilon as Senate president pro tempore – the second highest in the chamber. Cynthia Villar takes over the agriculture committee from Pangilinan, Chiz Escudero now leads the education committee from Bam Aquino, while JV Ejercito gets the health committee from Sen Risa Hontiveros.

Pangilinan said the LP will decide on the matter after the vote on the re-imposition of death penalty in the Lower House on Wednesday.
LP Senator’s postponed the decision on the matter of whether or not the contingent of Liberal Party in the House will leave the majority until after these death penalty debates have been completed.
Some LP members want to see if House Speaker Pantaleon Alvarez will follow through on his threat to strip congressmen off their committee chairmanships if they vote against the bill.
If this happens, it could trigger the LP's split from the coalition.
But the LP has still decided to formally disagree on the possible return of the Death Penalty.
X.Pres. Benigno Aquino III and V.P. Leni Robredo were also present at the meeting but did not allow someone to know the content of thier meeting and what they shared with their party mates. But according to some LP members, Aquino urged party members to speak out more.

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