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This means war.
“Sen. Pia Cayetano called for the resignation of National Historical Commission of the Philippines (NHCP) chairperson Maria Serena Diokno for failing to defend the Rizal Monument as a national symbol,” reports Marvin Sy in The Philippine Star.
Cayetano has made it known that she is opposing the construction of Torre de Manila Condominium building of DMCI Homes.
The report noted: “The Office of the Solicitor General recently dropped the NHCP as its client in the Torre de Manila case before the Supreme Court because of the differing positions the two have taken on the issue. Indeed, the NHCP has taken a position that the Torre de Manila is outside the boundaries of the Rizal Park and as such cannot obstruct the front view of the Rizal Monument.”
Cayetano was quoted as saying, “I find it extremely strange that we now have the NHCP insisting that it cannot defend the Rizal monument when there are many of us, including the Solicitor General, the defender of the Constitution, who believe that we must and we can protect the Rizal monument under the Constitution and existing laws.”
The senator then added that if Diokno, as NHCP chair, “cannot get on board with this, as she has blatantly displayed, then she must resign instead of hiring private counsel to defend her inability to perform her job.”
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