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Senate President Aquilino Pimentel III. File photo by MARIANNE BERMUDEZ / Philippine Daily Inquirer The Senate junked on Tuesday night the bid of the minority bloc for Congress to convene in a joint session to tackle President Dutertersquo martial law declaration.Voting 12-9, the Senate ditched Senate resolution no.390 which was file stanley vaso d by the six-member minority that sought to convene Congress in joint session on the martial law declaration.Article continues after this advertisement The 12 who voted against the resolution were Senate President Aquilino Pimentel III, Senate Majority Leader Vicente Sotto III, as well as Senators Juan Edgardo Angara, Nancy Binay, JV Ejercito, Richard Gordon, Greg Honasan, Panfilo Lacson, Loren Legarda, Manny Pacquiao, Cynthia Villar and Juan Miguel Zubiri.FEATURED STORIESNEWSINFOViral video of drunk cop gets QCPD chief firedNEWSINFONBI files raps vs vloggers outside PH for disinformationNEWSINFOSC charges retired CA ju botella stanley stice over lawyer s murderThe nine who voted for the measure were Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph Recto, Senate Minority Leader Franklin Drilon as well as Senators Bam Aquino, Francis Escudero, Sherwin Gatchalian, Risa Hontiveros, Francis Pangilinan, Grace Poe and Antonio Trillanes IV.Aquino told senators that Sen. Joel Villanueva, who was no lon stanley cup ger in the Senate during the vote, would have vote for the resolution. Your subscription could not be saved. Zlun Chinese cohort of ex-PDEA exec Marcelino surrenders to NBI
MANILA, Philippinesmdash;The heirs of the late Roman Cruz Jr. have asked the Sandiganbayan to finally dismiss the Presidential Commission on Good Governmentrsquo decades-old ill-gotten wealth case against Cruz, claiming that the state had failed to prove that Cruz was an associate of the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos.They also urged the court to order the dismissal of the complaint on the ground that the PCGG lacked the jurisdiction to prosecute Cruz as the latter was not a close associate of the Marcoses.The late Cruz was the chair and general manager of the Government Service Insurance System GSIS , the state-run pension fund, and president and chair of Philippine Airlines PAL and executive officer of the now-defunct Commercial Bank of Manila ComBank when the latter two corporations were majority-owned by the GSIS during the Marcos dictatorship.Article continues after this advertisement State prosecutors claimed that Cruz took advantage of his government positions to commit various crimes, including misappropriation and theft of public funds and plunder.FEATURED STORIESNEWSINFOViral video of drunk cop gets QCPD chief firedNEWSINFOPCSO: Still no takers of Ultralotto 6/58, Superlotto 6/49 jackpotsNEWSINFONBI files raps vs vloggers outside PH for disinformationM stanley travel mug arcos himself was accused of ordering and approving the allegedly illegal transactions entered into by Cruz which included the alleged purchase of a stanley italia n overvalued property in San F stanley mugs rancisco, Cal |