The 51-strong Visayan bloc within the House of Representatives on Monday issued threw their help behind Speaker Martin Romualdez amid stories of an ouster plot in opposition to him.
“Members of the Visayan Bloc express full support for Speaker Ferdinand Martin G. Romualdez, a distinguished son of the Visayas and who has always been a strong champion of development in the Visayas,” the bloc mentioned in an announcement.
The group described Romualdez as a “paragon of public service” who demonstrated “effective leadership through competence, diligence and good will.”
“We will continue to work with him to deliver on the President’s priority legislative agenda and uplift the lives of Filipinos,” the bloc mentioned.
Rumors of an alleged plot to oust Romualdez as speaker began when former President and Pampanga Representative Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo was changed as senior deputy speaker by Pampanga Representative Aurelio Gonzales on May 17.
Arroyo, who was relegated to the place of deputy speaker, has denied involvement within the alleged strikes to unseat Romualdez, saying the speakership is just not part of her political agenda.
Political events PDP-Laban, Nacionalista occasion, Nationalist People’s Coalition, National Unity Party and the Party-list Coalition have earlier expressed help to Romualdez’s speakership.
Amid the controversy involving House leaders, Vice President Sara Duterte resigned as chairperson of the ruling occasion Lakas-CMD occasion the place Romualdez sits as occasion president.
Duterte ran for the vice presidency within the 2022 polls as Lakas-CMD member.
Arroyo, however, stays Lakas-CMD’s chairman emeritus and is likely one of the 71 Lakas-CMD members within the House of Representatives.
President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr., in the meantime, earlier mentioned the change in House management involving Arroyo was only a regular reorganization course of. Marcos is Romualdez’s cousin.
In an announcement on Sunday, Romualdez mentioned efforts to destabilize the House “should be nipped in the bud” as a result of “the House cannot be distracted from finding legislative solutions to issues that affect the lives of ordinary Filipinos.” —Llanesca T. Panti/KBK, GMA Integrated News
Source: www.gmanetwork.com
