Hundreds of people gather at the Lapu-Lapu monument in Rizal Park, Manila to protest the burial of dictator Ferdinand Marcos at the Libingan ng mga Bayani (INQUIRER.Net).
A resolution expressing the sense of the Senate against the burial of the late strongman Ferdinand Marcos at the Libingan ng mga Bayani has failed to get the approval of the chamber after only eight senators voted for it.
A majority vote or 11 of the 20 senators present were needed to approve Senate Resolution No. 86, “expressing the sense of the Senate that the crimes of the former president Ferdinand Marcos to the Republic, and the human rights violations committed under his regime, render him unfit to be buried at the Libingan ng mga Bayani.”
The eight who voted to adopt the resolution were Senators Bam Aquino, Leila de Lima, Franklin Drilon, Risa Hontiveros, Francis “Kiko” Pangilinan, Grace Poe, Joel Villanueva and Senate President Aqulino “Koko” Pimentel III.
It was Drilon who moved to adopt the resolution, filed by Hontiveros.
“With eight affirmative votes, six negative votes, six abstentions, the motion is lost,” Pimentel announced after the voting.
Angara immediately took the floor to explain why he abstained from voting, saying the issue should be decided, not by politicians, but by the people through a national referendum.