Budget bill triggers House leadership row

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Deputy Speaker Paolo Duterte warned that he would ask the Mindanao bloc to declare the seats of Speaker Alan Peter Cayetano and 22 deputy speakers vacant during Monday’s session. | deejayapINQ

“If the members of Congress will push for a change in House leadership, as a reaction to their sentiments, obviously I would be among the casualties because I am a deputy speaker. I am ready to accept the consequences,” Duterte said.

A screenshot of the message obtained by the Inquirer showed Duterte telling his friend, ACT-CIS Rep. Eric Yap, the House appropriations panel chair, in Filipino: “I had warned you, I was just keeping quiet because the Speaker was no longer talking to me. Now, I’ve been dragged into this.” The Inquirer source said many House members were frustrated with the conduct of the budget briefings and the lack of transparency in a number of discretionary lump-sum items, which critics had derided as “pork.”“There was no transparency in some budget items. Lump-sum appropriations should be broken down per expenditures item, per region, per district,” he said.

The matter was compounded by uncertainty over whether the planned turnover of the House leadership from Cayetano to Marinduque Rep. Lord Allan Velasco, with whom the Speaker has a term-sharing deal, would still take place. On Saturday, the Inquirer reported that the President made a comment about pitying Velasco during his meeting with Cayetano in Malacañang and that the remark was interpreted by Cayetano as an endorsement of his plan to drop his “gentleman’s agreement” with Velasco.

 

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