{"id":336781,"date":"2021-01-15T06:05:56","date_gmt":"2021-01-14T20:05:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=336781"},"modified":"2021-01-15T06:05:56","modified_gmt":"2021-01-14T20:05:56","slug":"blanco-is-house-minority-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/blanco-is-house-minority-leader\/","title":{"rendered":"Blanco is House minority leader"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_336782\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-336782\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Ferdie-minority1-14-21.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-336782\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Ferdie-minority1-14-21-1024x531.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"498\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-336782\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rep. Jonathan Blas T. Attao (R-Saipan) holds up a letter addressed to House Speaker Edmund S. Villagomez (R-Saipan), notifying him that the minority bloc has selected Rep. Ivan A. Blanco (R-Saipan), fourth from right, as the minority leader yesterday. The letter was signed by the nine minority members. (CONTRIBUTED PHOTO)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The minority bloc in the House of Representatives chose Rep. Ivan A. Blanco (R-Saipan) yesterday as minority leader.<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Angel A. Demapan (R-Saipan), who is the minority bloc\u2019s spokesperson, said they are confident in Blanco\u2019s skills and abilities to lead their team in the 22nd House.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe minority bloc is looking forward to formulating our goals and objectives in our endeavor to help restore our economic footing following the immense challenges of the global pandemic,\u201d Demapan said.<\/p>\n<p>Demapan, who was nominated to the speakership last Tuesday, took himself out of the race after the voting deadlocked between him and Rep. Edmund S. Villagomez (Ind-Saipan). Blanco was then nominated for speaker. Rep. Ralph N. Yumul (R-Saipan) broke the tie, 11-9, when he voted for Villagomez.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The minority bloc in the House of Representatives chose Rep. Ivan A. Blanco (R-Saipan) yesterday&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":336782,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[65],"class_list":["post-336781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=336781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336781\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/336782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}