The Former President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo will look for in 2022 a re-visitation of the House of Representatives which she drove as speaker from 2018 to 2019. Her child, officeholder Pampanga Rep. Mikey Arroyo, affirmed her arrangements to run for a legislative seat. The more seasoned Arroyo had recently pledged in 2018 that she would be resigning from taxpayer supported organization …

Dissident Srisuwan Janya will on Saturday appeal the National Anti Corruption Commission (NACC) to test the direct of 277 MPs who caused a House meeting on Wednesday to fall. An absence of majority constrained House Speaker Chuan Leekpai to dismiss the meeting held to discuss draft enactment on unsafe substances. Just 206 out of 483 MPs proclaimed themselves present, bringing …

METRO MANILA – Taguig-Pateros Rep. Alan Peter Cayetano resigned Tuesday as House Speaker after the members of Congress formally ratified Marinduque Rep. Lord Allan Velasco as their new leader at the Batasang Pambansa. Cayetano said in a Facebook live that he is tendering his irrevocable resignation as the speaker of the House of the Republic of the Philippines and that …

METRO MANILA – A total of 186 congressmen, a majority of the 299 members of the House of Representatives, have elected Marinduque Rep. Lord Allan Velasco to unseat Alan Peter Cayetano as the new Speaker in a session held outside the House of Representatives. The election, which described by allies of Rep. Alan Peter Cayetano “illegal.”, happened at the Celebrity …

METRO MANILA –  The administration faction supporting Marinduque Rep. Lord Allan Velasco is plotting a move to unseat Rep. Alan Peter Cayetano as the House Speaker, saying the lower chamber needs a leader that has a heart of a public servant, and not with a heart of a tyrant.” Velasco’s camp cited that they have 187 house members supporting them, …

METRO MANILA – House of Representatives Speaker Alan Peter Cayetano yesterday abruptly approved the P4.5-trillion 2021 General Appropriations Bill on second reading while quicly moving to suspend sessions until November 16 amid the speakership row. Cayetano’s move was seen by some as a “desperate attempt” to stay in power. He was able to terminate the budget deliberations to show that …

METRO MANILA – The House leadership will be decided on Oct. 14 between incumbent Speaker Alan Peter Cayetano and Marinduque Rep. Lord Allan Velasco. The two house representative have been trading blows on who should be the house speaker after the agreed on  a term-sharing agreement in 2019. Velasco is supposed to assume the position this month but Cayetano indicated …

METRO MANILA – President Rodrigo Duterte met with House Speaker Alan Peter Cayetano after the House of Representatives denied his offer to resign from his post over the speakership fued with Marinduque Rep. Lord Allan Velasco. According to Presidential spokesperson Harry Roque said the meeting was scheduled two weeks ago, calling it  “a coincidence,” as the Palace denied the lawmaker …