Tag: Duterte emergency powers

Poe on grant of emergency powers: I’m not against it but it can’t be a “shotgun approach”

(Eagle News)–Senator Grace Poe on Friday, Sept. 13, maintained she was not against the grant of emergency powers for traffic problems to be addressed but said this “cannot be a shotgun approach.” “For you to give something as immense as the emergency powers, you have to be sniper accurate… It’s like giving a loaded gun to a child if they don’t have a plan,” she said. According to Poe, “there are already several laws in […]

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Poe still not convinced grant of emergency powers to Duterte needed to address traffic problem

(Eagle News)–Senator Grace Poe is still not convinced President Rodrigo Duterte needs to be given emergency powers for the traffic problem in Metro Manila to be resolved. Speaking to reporters on Tuesday, Sept. 10, Poe, the chair of the Senate committee on public services, said there were other things that the Department of Transportation could do on its own without  the powers. During her panel’s hearing on the proposed bus ban on Edsa, Poe said […]

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