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(Eagle News) — Davao Mayor Sara Duterte on Tuesday, July 24, congratulated Pampanga Rep. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo for her new post as Speaker of the House of Representatives. “Congratulations to SPGMA. A strong leader,” she said in a text message. The presidential daughter refused to comment, however, on the change in leadership. Rumors had it it was the Davao mayor who had a hand in the ouster of Alvarez as Speaker. The presidential daughter had been […]
(Eagle News) — The House of Representatives on Tuesday, July 24, ratified the bicameral conference committee report on the Bangsamoro Organic Law. The ratification was done by the body that is now under the leadership of Pampanga Rep. Gloria Macapagal Arroyo. Arroyo replaced Rep. Pantaleon Alvarez as Speaker on Monday, July 23, the day President Rodrigo Duterte held his State of the Nation Address. Arroyo said she would carry out the “legislative agenda” of Duterte, […]
(Eagle News) — Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque on Tuesday, July 24, speculated Pantaleon Alvarez was ousted as Speaker because he was pushing for a postponement of next year’s elections to allow for Charter Change. “Even the President had problems with the call of the House Speaker on no elections. And I noticed that the President was visibly concerned about the pronouncements of the Speaker,” Roque said. According to Roque, the President believes federalism “should be […]
(Eagle News) — Newly-installed Speaker Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo said she intends to ratify the Bangsamoro Organic Law on Tuesday, July 24. Speaking to reporters at the Batasang Pambansa a day after she was installed as Speaker, Arroyo said the ratification of the BOL, which was delayed over the events in the House of Representatives that led to the ouster of Pantaleon Alvarez, “must” push through as part of her “primary specific objective to carry out the […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte “almost walked out” over what happened in the House of Representatives that eventually led to the ouster of Speaker Pantaleon Alvarez. This was according to Senate President Tito Sotto, who sent text messages to reporters on the change of leadership in the Lower Chamber on Monday, July 23, the day President Duterte held his State of the Nation Address. “Inis si (Duterte). Hindi niya gusto yung nangyayari,” Sotto, who […]
(Eagle News) — Several lawmakers on Tuesday, July 24, slammed Pampanga Rep. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo’s election as Speaker, with some calling her a “sham Speaker” and “corrupt.” “Hindi porke babae na nasa poder ay susuportahan na ng kababaihan. Hindi pwedeng i-recycle ang mga abusado sa kapangyarihan,” Gabriela Women’s Party Reps. Arlene Brosas and Emmi De Jesus said in a statement. According to the militant lawmakers, “Gabriela Women’s Party will never forget the 1,206 victims of extrajudicial killing, 206 […]
(Eagle News)–Those who plan to install Pampanga Rep. and now-Speaker Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo as the country’s first prime minister should “think twice,” Senator Panfilo Lacson said on Monday, July 24. In a statement, Lacson, an opposition senator who left the country during Arroyo’s term as president after charges were filed against him in connection with the killings of publicist Salvador Dacer and his driver in 2000, said this was because “the Senate, both majority and minority have […]
(Eagle News) — “Awkward, low, ugly, disgraceful.” This was how Senator Panfilo Lacson described the scenes leading to the official election of Pampanga Rep. Gloria Arroyo as the new Speaker of the House of Representatives on Monday, July 23. In a short Tweet on Tuesday, July 24, Lacson noted that the mace, which symbolizes the authority of the Lower Chamber, was “in a maze at the Batasan.” “It didn’t know whose authority to symbolize at […]
(Eagle News) — In this video taken by Eagle News correspondent Norie Baytic, several members of the House of Representatives are seen holding a session post-State of the Nation Address on Monday, July 23, apparently aimed at again installing Rep. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo as the Speaker. This was done after several who included allies of Rep. Pantaleon Alvarez’s camp questioned her oath-taking for the post prior to President Rodrigo Duterte’s State of the Nation Address. Deputy […]
(Eagle News) — Rep. Gloria Macapagal Arroyo is the new Speaker of the House of Representatives. She was seen taking her oath, replacing Pantaleon Alvarez, minutes before President Rodrigo Duterte arrived at the Batasang Pambansa on Monday, July 23. The microphone at the podium, where she took her oath before a lawmaker, had been notably turned off. A PTV video showed, however, that it was Alvarez who greeted the President upon his arrival at […]
(Eagle News) — A manifesto is being circulated in the House of Representatives to oust Pantaleon Alvarez as speaker. A supposed coalition of congressmen who signed the manifesto said Alvarez’s replacement by Rep. Gloria Macapagal Arroyo was “in the interest of providing a more dynamic legislature attuned with the times and the needs of the people.” The group said a “credible and competent House leadership will be needed to guide and steer the national debate […]
(Eagle News) — The House of Representatives’ session on Monday, July 23, adjourned without the supposed ouster plot against Speaker Pantaleon Alvarez pushing through. The adjournment took place after an hour’s suspension of the session, and amid the rumors Alvarez would be replaced by Rep. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo. Arroyo was deputy speaker of the House before she was removed by Alvarez for her anti-death penalty stance. “Hindi naman pumapayag na umalis si Alvarez,” Akbayan Rep. Tom […]
