Manila, Phillipines — With President Duterte keeping his hands off the issue, the House of Representatives will vote on the term-sharing deal between Speaker Alan Peter Cayetano and Marinduque Rep. Lord Allan Velasco, a House official said yesterday. “If the President does not intervene, we House members will decide whether to retain Speaker Cayetano or push through with term sharing. As far as we in the Nacionalista Party and other congressmen are concerned, we want continuity in the leadership,” Deputy Speaker Luis Raymund Villafuerte told ABS-CBN News Channel. He was referring to the ouster of then speaker Pantaleon Alvarez and the election of former president and Pampanga congresswoman Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo as new speaker. President Duterte signed the bill in April after vetoing or deleting P95 billion worth of last-minute realignments made by the House leadership.

Source: Philippine Star November 13, 2019 16:00 UTC