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Romualdez is the lone nominee for speaker. The Home’s three Dutertes stroll out of the plenary to skip the casting of their votes.
MANILA, Philippines – Leyte 1st District Consultant Martin Romualdez has formally retained the Home speakership, quashing on-line hypothesis that he was vulnerable to dropping the nation’s fourth highest put up.
A complete of 269 Home lawmakers voted for Romualdez as their chief through the opening of the twentieth Congress on Monday, July 28. There have been 34 members who abstained.
“Within the face of adversity, he stays robust. Below strain, he stays grounded. Amid political division, he builds bridges. And in occasions of doubt, he leads with a coronary heart,” Quezon 2nd District Jay-jay Suarez stated in his nomination speech for Romualdez.
It was seconded by President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.’s son, Ilocos Norte 1st District Consultant Sandro Marcos, and key get together leaders.
Politicians whose names had been as soon as floated for the speakership abstained from the vote, specifically Bacolod Consultant Albee Benitez, Cebu fifth District Consultant Duke Frasco, and Navotas Metropolis Consultant Toby Tiangco.
The Home’s three Dutertes — Davao Metropolis 1st District Paolo Duterte, Davao Metropolis 2nd District Omar Duterte, and PPP Consultant Harold Duterte — walked out of the plenary to skip the casting of a vote.
Romualdez’s reelection got here simply days after the chamber misplaced an necessary Supreme Court docket battle on the impeachment trial of Vice President Sara Duterte.
Romualdez, the cousin of President Ferdinand Marcos Jr., led the Home for the entire nineteenth Congress, and for probably the most half noticed no severe risk to his management.
His previous ties with former president Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, his mentor, took a serious hit after his allies eliminated her as deputy speaker in 2023. Romualdez had stated that there was a must suppress “occasional strikes to destabilize the Home.”
Romualdez, nevertheless, discovered his worst enemy in Vice President Sara Duterte, who has overtly lambasted the previous for his supposed political ambitions and his alleged unilateral management over the nationwide funds.
Below his management, the Home launched an investigation into Duterte’s dealing with of public funds, and the findings lay the muse of the impeachment criticism transmitted by congressmen to the Senate.
The Supreme Court docket later stated the Home’s impeachment of the VP was unconstitutional.
It was additionally underneath Romualdez’s watch that the Home shaped the extremely common quad committee, which probed controversies that hounded the Rodrigo Duterte administration, from the bloody drug conflict to the proliferation of Philippine offshore gaming operators (POGOs).
A Social Climate Stations (SWS) survey performed in June discovered that 57% of Filipinos have a lot belief in the direction of the Home, however solely 34% for Romualdez. The numbers additionally confirmed that 34% of respondents had little belief in the direction of him.
Whereas he confronted no severe contest for the speakership, Tiangco beforehand tried to forged doubts on the power of his numbers within the Home.
Tiangco had stated some lawmakers reached out to him to specific their want to help him for the speakership.
Frasco additionally refused to signal the manifesto of help for Romualdez, leading to his expulsion from the Nationwide Unity Get together, which publicly backed Romualdez’s bid for the speakership. – Rappler.com
