Tag: Speaker

Velasco, Romualdez nominate Cayetano to Speaker post

Presidential son Paolo Duterte also nominates Taguig-Pateros representative (Eagle News)–Erstwhile Speaker contenders nominated Taguig-Pateros Rep. Alan Peter Cayetano to the House speakership on Monday, July 22, in a turn of events that appeared to indicate an end to the Speakership issue. Reps. Martin Romualdez and Lord Allan Velasco made the nomination during  the House of Representatives first regular session of the 18th Congress. Under a term-sharing agreement backed by President Rodrigo Duterte, Velasco would serve […]

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Paolo Duterte backs out of Speakership race, to support Rep. Ungab instead

  (Eagle News) – Presidential son and Davao City Representative Paolo Duterte said on Saturday, July 6, that he had decided to back out of his initial plan to run for House Speaker and would instead support the speakership bid of fellow Davao lawmaker Rep. Isidro Ungab. Rep. Duterte said that he had already spoken to his father, President Rodrigo Duterte, Thursday night in Davao City. “We both agreed that this will not be the […]

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In photos: Romualdez, Velasco, Cayetano meet with President Duterte in Japan

(Eagle News)–In these pictures released by Bong Go on Wednesday night, President Rodrigo Duterte, who is in  Japan, is seen with Reps. Lord Allan Velasco and Martin Romualdez, and Congressman-elect Alan Peter Cayetano. The three are vying for the House speakership post. Conspicuously absent was Rep. Pantaleon Alvarez, who has been very vocal about  his  intention to run for the speakership. Alvarez, who was reelected for another term in the May 13 polls, was Speaker […]

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Office of former Speaker Alvarez listed by COA as top spender in House of Representatives in 2017

(Eagle News) — The office of former Speaker Pantaleon Alvarez is the House of Representatives’ top spender in 2017, a Commission on Audit report showed. According to the list published by COA on Tuesday, Jan. 23, the office of Alvarez, who served as Speaker from July 2016 to July 2018, incurred a total of P43.7 million from Jan. 1 to Dec. 31, 2017. Of this, COA said  P30 million was spent for consultants’ contracts,more than P1 […]

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Group of former Speaker Alvarez urges SC to intervene in squabble over who should be House minority leader

(Eagle News)–The group of ousted Speaker Pantaleon Alvarez has asked the Supreme Court to intervene in the squabble over who should be the Lower House’s minority leader. The lawmakers also asked the SC to order Danilo Suarez to cease and desist from performing the functions of the minority leader, and to acknowledge ABS Party-list Rep. Eugene Michael de Vera for the position instead. Alvarez’s group had argued Suarez could not be the minority leader as, […]

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Arroyo plans to retire from gov’t service in 2019

(Eagle News) — Speaker Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo is retiring in 2019. In an interview with CNN Philippines, Arroyo said she was not running for any public position after her term as Speaker of the House of Representatives expires next year. “I am retiring…I don’t want to run for anything in 2019,” she said. “I think there’s a time when you should retire, and I think..when you’re in your retirement age, you have more wisdom, are more […]

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Palace “looking forward” to Arroyo’s “successful leadership” in House

(Eagle News)—The Palace on Thursday, July 26, said it was looking forward to Speaker Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo’s “successful leadership” in the House of Representatives, as it thanked her predecessor, Rep. Pantaleon Alvarez, for his “invaluable service to the institution and the nation.” In a statement, Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque noted that the Palace was “confident” Arroyo would “put her considerable experience and skills behind (President Rodrigo Duterte’s) agenda.” “The Palace is ready to work with the […]

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Sotto: President Duterte “almost walked out” over House events on SONA day

(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 […]

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Some lawmakers slam Arroyo’s election as Speaker

(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 […]

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Arroyo vows to carry out President Duterte’s legislative agenda in House as new Speaker

(Eagle News)– Former President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo on Tuesday, July 24, vowed to carry out the “legislative agenda” of President Rodrigo Duterte in the House of Representatives as its new Speaker. “I am extremely honored to have been supported by my colleagues at the House of Representatives to be their new Speaker,” she said in a short statement on Tuesday, July 24. Arroyo, who reportedly had Davao Mayor Sara Duterte’s backing, replaced Rep. Pantaleon Alvarez on […]

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UPDATED: Arroyo now the Speaker of the House of Representatives

  (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 […]

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