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Arroyo has denied the declare, reaffirming her confidence in Dy’s management of the Home of Representatives and stressing that their political relationship, which dates again to his late father, stays intact
Declare: Home Speaker Bojie Dy shall be changed by former president and Pampanga 2nd District Consultant Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo by means of a coup within the Home involving Vice President Sara Duterte.
Score: FALSE
Why we fact-checked this: The declare appeared on a Fb web page posing as a information outlet with 43,000 followers, and as of writing, the submit has 11,300 likes, 1,500 feedback, and 487 shares.
Textual content overlaid on the picture reads: “New speaker Arroyo, Kongreso nagmotion na. Kamara nabaliktad na. Gloria ipapalit na kay Speaker Dy, kudeta na.”
(New Speaker Arroyo, the Congress has already made a movement. The Home has been overturned. Gloria will exchange Speaker Dy. It’s now a coup.)
The submit’s caption additional claims that an alleged alliance between Arroyo and Duterte is forming to overturn the management in Congress.
The information: Dy stays in his submit, and there may be presently no verified transfer to switch him. There may be additionally no credible proof that Arroyo is staging a “coup” within the Home or that she is working with Duterte to take over the speakership. No official statements, information experiences, or confirmed sources help these allegations.
Arroyo has already denied the declare, stating on April 10 that she just isn’t concerned in any effort to unseat Dy. “I categorically deny the allegations regarding the supposed ouster of Speaker Bojie Dy that surfaced yesterday,” Arroyo mentioned in an announcement. (READ: Arroyo denies plotting to oust Speaker Bojie Dy)
She additionally reaffirmed her confidence in Dy’s management within the Home of Representatives and careworn that their political relationship, which dates again to his late father, stays intact.
The declare emerged amid heightened political pressure in Congress, coinciding with the Home justice committee’s second public listening to on the impeachment grievance towards Duterte on Tuesday, April 14.
Through the listening to, Duterte once more did not attend, whereas key witness and self-confessed former “bagman” Ramil Madriaga testified earlier than lawmakers, alleging that he coordinated with the Vice President’s safety personnel in transporting wads of money, reportedly linked to confidential funds. (READ: LIVE: Ramil Madriaga, different key witnesses testify at Sara Duterte impeachment listening to)
Ouster allegations: Arroyo has repeatedly been linked to allegations of involvement in Home management ouster strikes, though such claims have diverse in substantiation.
In 2018, she turned Speaker of the Home after then-speaker Pantaleon Alvarez was eliminated by means of a signed majority manifesto and plenary proceedings on July 23, in the course of the opening of the seventeenth Congress. Lawmakers later voted to put in her as the brand new Speaker, a management change broadly described in experiences as a profitable ouster backed by a congressional bloc.
In 2023, she was once more drawn into speakership-related speculations after Home management tensions surfaced. She was ultimately ousted as deputy speaker after selecting to not signal Home Decision 1414, which expressed help for then-speaker Martin Romualdez. Her removing was framed by Home leaders as a matter of inside alignment, whereas rumors circulated on the time alleging she was being linked to makes an attempt to unseat Romualdez. – Marjuice Destinado/Rappler.com
Marjuice Destinado is a senior political science pupil at Cebu Regular College (CNU) and an alumna of the Aries Rufo Journalism Fellowship of Rappler for 2025.
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