00:00After the two days, the Senate has been in the Senate.
00:03The Senate has been in charge of the Senate,
00:06Mr. Senator Alan Peter Cayetano,
00:09is illegal.
00:10The report is Ian Cruz.
00:14If this is the two days,
00:17it's been in charge of the Senate
00:18because one minority Senators is only in charge of the Senate.
00:49The 69th session of the Senate
00:52in the first regular session of the 20th Congress
00:55is hereby called to order.
01:01With 12 Senators present,
01:03the Chair declares a quorum.
01:09Matapos ideklarang may quorum,
01:12idineklara namang bakante
01:13ang lahat ng posisyon sa Senado.
01:16Mr. President, I move to declare
01:21all elected positions in the Senate vacant.
01:24Is there any objection?
01:26Second.
01:30Inilukluk si Gatchalian bilang Senate President pro tempore.
01:34Pinalitan din ang chairperson ng mga komite.
01:40Itinilaga namang Senate Secretary si Ray Bantug
01:43at Surgeon at Arms si dating Police Major General Alfredo Soto Corpus.
01:49Further, Article 6, Section 16-5 of the Constitution provides
01:54that neither house shall,
01:57during sessions of Congress,
01:58adjourn for more than three days
02:00without the consent of the other house.
02:03The Senate has been adjourned
02:07and unable to resume session
02:09for the past two days,
02:11placing us on the brink
02:12of constitutional violation
02:14had we not convened today.
02:17Thus, in the absence of a duly consulted postponement
02:21and the continued absence
02:23of the former Senate President,
02:25former Senate President pro tempore
02:27and members of the majority,
02:29we are compelled to call the session to order.
02:31Ang pinagbatayan daw nila ng quorum
02:34ay ang 1949 Supreme Court decision
02:36sa kasong Jose Avellino
02:38versus Mariano Cuenco
02:40kung saan hindi 24
02:41ang dapat pagbatayan ng quorum.
02:45Sa sitwasyon ngayon ng Senado,
02:47mayroon na lamang 22 senador
02:49dahil nakakulong si Senador Gingoy Estrada
02:51habang nagtatago
02:53si Senador Bato de la Rosa.
02:54The quorum of 12
02:56is based on majority of 22 senators
03:00over whom jurisdiction can be obtained
03:03by the Senate.
03:04This is in full accord
03:06with the ruling of the court
03:07in Avellino versus Cuenco
03:10that an absolute majority of 12
03:13out of the 23 members
03:14can constitute a constitutional majority
03:17of the Senate for quorum purposes.
03:20Pag mag-adjourn,
03:22itinalagang acting Senate President
03:24si Gatchalian.
03:26Sa isang pahayag,
03:27sinabi ng bagong Senate majority
03:29na hindi si Kayatano
03:31ang Senate President
03:31dahil ininiklara ng bakante
03:34ang lahat ng posisyon.
03:35Yun nga lang,
03:36hindi patuloy ang maiupo
03:38si Gatchalian bilang Senate President
03:40dahil kailangan pa
03:41ng labing tatlong boto
03:43ng mga senador
03:43sa ilalim ng konstitusyon.
03:46Ang gusto namin,
03:46bumalik na sa trabaho.
03:48Hindi tayo pwedeng ganito
03:49for the rest of our lives.
03:51Ang daming nakabindi na legislation.
03:53Tinawag ng bagong Senate majority
03:55ang grupo nila
03:55na Solid Block 12.
03:57Bagamat sinabi ni Escudero
03:59na wala siyang sinasamahan
04:01o iniiwang grupo.
04:03Nang tanongin naman
04:04kung paano na akumbinsing sumama
04:06sa kanila si Escudero.
04:07Paano niyo na-convince
04:08si Senator Chee, sir?
04:11May kapalit ba ang paglahok
04:13ni Escudero sa sesyon?
04:15Kusang loob niya yan,
04:16wala siyang hiningi
04:17maski ano,
04:18wala siyang kondisyon.
04:19Paliwanag naman ni Escudero,
04:21hindi raw katanggap-tanggap
04:23ang impasse
04:24o deadlock sa Senado.
04:26Hindi raw pwedeng manatili
04:27sa ganitong sitwasyon
04:28ng Senado
04:29dahil naapektuhan na
04:30ang mismong kakayahan
04:32nitong gampanan
04:32ang tungkulin sa bayan.
04:34Si Cayetano,
04:36idinaan ulit sa Facebook Live
04:38ang pag-alma
04:39sa nangyaring sesyon.
04:41I am still
04:42the legitimate,
04:44legal,
04:45moral
04:46Senate President
04:47of the Republic of the Philippines.
04:49Labagaan niya
04:50sa konstitusyon
04:51ang naging palitan
04:53ng liderato.
04:54Ang nakalagay sa konstitusyon
04:56ng Pilipinas,
04:58pwedeng magkonduct
05:00ng business
05:01ang Senado
05:02by a majority
05:03of all its members.
05:06Ang majority po
05:07ng 24
05:08ay 13 po.
05:10Kung titignan niyo po
05:11ang Rule 1 and 2
05:12ng Senado
05:13na ayon to
05:14sa Philippine Constitution
05:16para i-elect
05:17ang Senate President
05:19at ang Senate President
05:20Pro Temp
05:21o Pro Tempore
05:21ay kailangan po
05:23labing tatlo.
05:26So,
05:26paano po nila alisin
05:28si Sen. Loren Legarda
05:30kung 12 lang po sila?
05:32Dahil siya pa rin
05:33ang Senate President
05:34siya pa rin daw
05:35ang presiding officer
05:37kahit nag-elect pa
05:38ng bagong pro Tempore.
05:40Sabi naman ni Sen. Loren Legarda
05:43hindi dahilan ng anya
05:44yung temporary absence
05:45ng ilang miyembro
05:46para sabihin
05:47humina ang bandatong
05:49ibinigay sa kanila.
05:51Hanggat hindi nababakante,
05:53nagre-resign,
05:54ineexpel
05:55o nadidisqualify
05:56ang isang senador,
05:57bahagi raw sila
05:59ng Senado.
06:01Ian Cruz,
06:03GMA News.
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