Enrile resigns as a Senate President

[xxxchoholic Rai ♥]

Senator Juan Ponce Enrile irrevocably resigned as Senate president at the close of the 15th Congress this week.

In his valedictory speech, Enrile said: “I refuse to lend my hard-earned name as a convenient refuge to those who cannot face the public and defend their own honor. I refuse to allow anybody, whether in or outside the halls of this Chamber, to just freely trample upon the name that my late father, Alfonso Ponce Enrile, had so kindly allowed me to carry with pride.”

Enrile was referring to the controversy early this year after he released around P1.6 million as additional “maintenance and other operating expenditures” (MOOE) to 18 colleagues from “savings” of the chamber in 2012.

He released P250,000 to 4 senators whom the Senate president doesn't see eye-to-eye on a number of issues--the Cayetano siblings, Senator Miriam Defensor Santiago, and Senator Antonio Trillanes.

“I suffered the anger of the public as the media branded all that I had authorized for release to the Senators' offices last December as my personal ‘CASH GIFTS’ no matter how hard I tried to explain the nature of these disbursements from the Senate's coffers and my own office's savings,” he said.

He said he will not allow any senator, specifically a “self-confessed psychological case” and “the son of my former partner, the late Senator Renato L. Cayetano” to trample on his name.

“I do not need nor intend to use the powers, perquisites and trappings of the Senate Presidency just to cling to it or to secure this position for myself when the 16th Congress opens in July…Let us all be men and women worthy of being called "Honorable Senators." And let the chips fall where they may,” he said.

He said it’s about time that each and every senator answer and be accountable to the Senate’s reputation. He said it is not just about moving on after the mid-term elections, where his son lost.

He said the Senate is not just about Juan Ponce Enrile.

“I will leave each of my colleagues to explain directly to the people who elected them their respective positions on these issues and to account for their own budgets, as I have always been ready to account for my own. I can no longer speak for them. I refuse to be anyone's scapegoat and everyone's whipping boy,” he said.

He said he was left alone when the backlash came because of the “cash gifts” he gave to colleagues.

[fayt]

I see. Thanks for an article miss rai.

Kaya naman sya nagresign because eto talaga manyayare sa kanya. Magresign sya o hindi, still hindi na sya magiging senate president. Sa kokonti na lang senators na nasa opposition side, malabo makakuha sya ng enough vote para sa mapanatili sya sa pwesto.

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[xxxchoholic Rai ♥]

well may hinanakit din siya sa mga senadors

na kinukwestyon ang pagbibigay niya ng pera sa nga senadors

[rudyf109]

It's about time! He's a career politician! There's no crook larger than this guy in Phil. politics. Nobody is going to miss you! Miss Rai thank you for the info!   

[Prime™]

Right. Drama queen.

The guy has a brilliant mind, and politically eh he is very adept. Pero make no mistake. This guy is a member of the trapo club.

Corona trial was not good vs evil. It was bad against bad. Garbage people against other garbage people.


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[charliehouse]

No one can be more adept in terms of politics in the senate than Juan Ponce Enrile. In terms of politics and brilliance Enrile can be considered as the ideal Nietzschean Man aka Superman.

[romeo s. bleeding]

Agree ako sa mga comments nyo.
Honorable exit na lang ginawa niya. Eh master politician yan eh.
Their time is up. Ang ganda ng speech pero di na ako naniniwala sa kanya.
Oo, siniraan siya but there's no one to blame but himself. Isa na yung sa Memoir niya na tutoo raw yung ambush sa kanya bago mag martial law samantala nung People's Power ay sinabi niyang faked daw yun. Ano ba lolo? Bawian blues na lang?
Magaling nga siya pero di naman niya pinaganda ang Cagayan tulad ng mga Marcos sa Ilocos. Taga Cagayan ako kaya alam ko ang mag amang yan. Pumupunta lang mga yan sa Cagayan kung election.
Inamin mismo ni Lakay na yumaman dahil sa logging sa Cagayan kaya kasalanan pala niya kung bakit nakalbo ang kagubatan sa amin.
Yung CEZA, parang enrile family affair din yun.
At ngayon ay yung black sand mining, silent siya. Eh kalikasan na ang nasisira.
Their time is up.

[Gone_in_60sec]

Ok na sana na nawala si Enrile but please hwag sana si Drilon ang pumalit..

[¿m☺ÿ]

No one can be more adept in terms of politics in the senate than Juan Ponce Enrile. In terms of politics and brilliance Enrile can be considered as the ideal Nietzschean Man aka Superman.

you are definitely correct sir charliehouse, since Marcos regime isa na siya sa mga croonies ni macoy....so what couldn't we expect from long time politician? everything of course, well trained na siya diyan eh. i'm not really fund of Enrile because of his history in politics but i commend him sa resignation niya bilang SP for thinking fast and shifting the symphaty of the people or other politician to him....

[Prime™]

Ok na sana na nawala si Enrile but please hwag sana si Drilon ang pumalit..

Oh no!!!!! Oo nga!

Damn that guy... why the hell does he always win...? Wtf? The very definition of a douchebag politician.

+1k.  Man I really hope not.

[Puswak63]

sayang ang lolo kong ito

[xxxchoholic Rai ♥]

at least wala na siya sa main picture pero

mukang si drillon talaga ang papalit sa kanya eh

[shygurl]

Resign sya kesa mapahiya sa pagpapaals sa kanya.

[THE ANIMAL]

He just pre empt the future dun din kasi sya papunta.

[krimson38]

Good that Enrile resigned, but I hope we get a new Senate president, and not Drilon again. A new face naman sana.