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(Eagle News) — Newly elected Senate President Tito Sotto on Thursday, May 24, said he wants his predecessor, Koko Pimentel, to head the chamber’s ethics panel. “I was thinking he would take over that committee..,” Sotto said at a weekly forum. According to Sotto, Pimentel “has the stature, his work ethics is impeccable.” He said, however, that he has not talked to Pimentel about the possibility yet. The Senate ethics panel is currently headed by […]
QUEZON City, Philippines (Eagle News) – Senator Franklin Drilon is the new Senate minority leader. It was Senator Benigno Paolo Aquino IV who nominated Drilon, the Senate president pro-tempore until he was ousted on Monday. Aquino’s motion was seconded by Senate Majority Leader Vicente “Tito” Sotto III. Drilon, for his part, nominated Aquino as his Senate assistant minority leader. Senator Leila De Lima, who is detained at the Philippine National Police Custodial Center, meanwhile, expressed her decision to join the […]
QUEZON City, Philippines (Eagle News) — Malacañang said that the recent reorganization in the Senate is a normal occurrence. According to Presidential Spokesman Ernesto Abella, what happened was that the will of the majority was just upheld after the voting. Abella did not deny that the Duterte administration will benefit from the reorganization as more senators allied with the government will facilitate the passing of what the administration considers as important laws. https://youtu.be/uoEV5SCO9GM
(Eagle News) — He made the Senate his own boxing ring, so to speak. Senator Manny Pacquiao on Monday knocked Liberal Party senators and their ally out of their committee chairmanships and the Senate Pro-Tempore post, paving the way for a new minority bloc in the Upper House. During the session, the senator who rose to international fame because of his strong punches and agility in the boxing ring, stood up and moved to first have the […]
