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READ: House Speaker Alan Peter Cayetano says conducting a hearing on #ABSCBNFranchise does not mean automatic renewal.

Cayetano, who had deflected blames over the network's shutdown to NTC and SolGen Calida, says there are still "other concerns that need to be resolved."
CONTEXT: When ABS-CBN went off air, Cayetano kept mum for three days, only to speak up last Friday and say there will be a “reckoning” for the “flip-flopping of the NTC and unconstitutional meddling by the solicitor general in the business of Congress.”

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CONTEXT: In his statement last Friday, Cayetano said Congress was busy dealing with other issues such as the Taal Eruption in January 2020.

But in late January, the House of Representatives had time to unveil an exhibit of Kobe Bryant paraphernalia.

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CONTEXT: In February 2020, the House of Representatives also found the time to pay tribute to Kobe Bryant for the second time using a display of memorabilia from Cayetano's private collection.

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CONTEXT: Even though the franchise renewal has been pending since September 2014 and there was only a few months left until the expiration, Cayetano said in December 2019 that they will not tackle the renewal for the rest of 2019.

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CONTEXT: Cayetano in December assured ABS-CBN that the House of Representatives "will be fair" and would strictly observe “due process” when it deliberates on its legislative franchise renewal before it expires in March 2020.

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CONTEXT: However, in Feb. 2020, Albay Rep. Edcel Lagman confirmed that members of the House have allegedly been asked to withdraw their support for a resolution urging the House Committee on Legislative Franchises to act on ABS-CBN's franchise renewal.

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CONTEXT: In late February 2020, even though Congress has not yet tackled ABS-CBN's franchise renewal, Cayetano said that the House of Representatives is doing its best to address measures granting ABS-CBN a fresh broadcast franchise.

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CONTEXT: In March 2020, Cayetano, who lost the 2016 vice-presidential elections, revealed that he had a personal complaint against ABS-CBN, the same as his 2016 runningmate President Rodrigo Duterte.

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CONTEXT: A day after ABS-CBN was forced to go off-air, Rep. Edcel Lagman said that the network's shutdown is on House Speaker Alan Peter Cayetano whose leadership sat on franchise renewal bills of the network at the Congress.

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CONTEXT: The Free Legal Assistance Group also stressed that the blame on the non-renewal of ABS-CBN's franchise is largely on the Congress for not acting on bills to renew the network's franchise.

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CONTEXT: In April 2020, lawyer Dino De Leon asked the Supreme Court to compel President Rodrigo Duterte to make public his latest health bulletin amid his allegedly muddled handling of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak in the Philippines.

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Palace Spokesman Harry Roque claims that "Duterte is completely neutral on the issue" of ABS-CBN's franchise.

Since he was elected in 2016, Duterte has repeatedly expressed his anger against ABS-CBN accusing it of bias, non-payment of taxes and estafa.

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CONTEXT: During ABS-CBN's franchise hearing in the Senate last February 24, 2020, the network was scolded for airing anti-Duterte political advertisements back in the 2016 elections campaign.

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CONTEXT: In May 2017, Duterte said he would file charges of multiple syndicated estafa against ABS-CBN Corp. for allegedly failing to run his political advertisements during the election campaign even after he paid P2.8 million.

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Sen. Bato Dela Rosa claimed that POGOs are "very essential" to gov't because it needs money to fight COVID-19.

"On the part of the administration, it’s very essential because we need money to spend on the COVID-19 response.”

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CONTEXT: The Anti-Money Laundering Council previously reported in February 2020 that POGOs owe the government P50 billion in the form of franchise, corporate and other taxes.

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CONTEXT: Back in October 2019, BIR said that POGOs are ignoring demand letters and notices for them to comply with tax laws and settle their unpaid obligations.

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