Lagman tells House super majority to choose ‘common candidate for Speaker’ 0 SHARES Share it! This would raise the chances that the eventual Minority Leader would represent a “genuine opposition” in the House of Representatives, Lagman said. “Since the declared aspirants, without any exception, are with the coalesced parties of the administration, then they should agree among themselves to field a common administration candidate,” he said. “A lone Duterte candidate for Speaker would foreclose the eventually of a losing administration aspirant becoming the majority’s Minority Leader, an aberration which happened in the 17th Congress,” Lagman added. Traditionally, the congressman who ends up in second place in the Chamber’s voting for the Speaker gets named as the Minority Leader.

Source: Manila Bulletin May 19, 2019 08:03 UTC