{"id":381520,"date":"2022-12-14T06:06:31","date_gmt":"2022-12-13T20:06:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=381520"},"modified":"2022-12-14T06:06:31","modified_gmt":"2022-12-13T20:06:31","slug":"deleon-guerrero-may-likely-become-next-senate-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/deleon-guerrero-may-likely-become-next-senate-president\/","title":{"rendered":"DeLeon Guerrero may likely become next Senate president"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_381521\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-381521\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Edith-DeLeon-Guerrero17.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-381521\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Edith-DeLeon-Guerrero17-1024x531.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"498\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-381521\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. Edith E. DeLeon Guerrero<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Sen. Edith E. DeLeon Guerrero (D-Saipan) will likely be the Senate president in the incoming 23rd Legislature.<\/p>\n<p>Sources at the Legislature and the camp of governor-elect Arnold I. Palacios and lieutenant governor-elect David M. Apatang disclosed that the Senate president position will be a toss-up between DeLeon Guerrero and Rep. Celina R. Babauta (D-Saipan), who won a Saipan Senate seat in the Nov. 8 general elections.<\/p>\n<p>However, DeLeon Guerrero may likely be selected by senators as president considering that she is senior to Babauta.<\/p>\n<p>DeLeon Guerrero has yet to comment if she is interested in the position.Babauta also has yet to comment on the matter.<\/p>\n<p>In the incoming 23rd Legislature, the independents and Democrats will be the new majority.<\/p>\n<p>Aside from DeLeon Guerrero and Babauta, the new majority members will be Rep. Corina L. Magofna (Ind-Saipan), Rep. Donald M. Manglona (Ind-Rota), Sen. Paul A. Manglona (Ind-Rota).<\/p>\n<p>Senate President Jude U. Hofschneider (R-Tinian), Sen. Francisco Q. Cruz (R-Tinian), Sen. Karl King-Nabors (R-Tinian), and Sen-elect Dennis James C. Mendiola (R-Rota) will become the new minority.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Edith E. DeLeon Guerrero (D-Saipan) will likely be the Senate president in the incoming&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":381521,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-381520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381520","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=381520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381520\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/381521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}