Lawmakers set aside dislike of Cayetano for Speaker to secure House posts

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Presidential daughter Sara Duterte previously claimed Cayetano made a 'veiled threat' against her should she decide to support the speakership bid of Marinduque Represenative Lord Allan Velasco. PHNews

COMPROMISES. Legislators who were once against an Alan Peter Cayetano speakership are now set to vote for him as Speaker. File photo by Darren Langit/Rappler

Yong ibang mga congressman siyempre nagsa-sign-up for Cayetano kasi siya na raw ang Speaker, ’di ba? Ang bottomline is the committee assignments,” All that the party-list coalition – the second biggest bloc in the House – wants from Cayetano is for him to follow through on his commitment to grant them 20% of the total leadership positions.

Now that he has accepted the Majority Leader job, Romualdez committed to help his allies get some of the leadership positions he had promised them.

 

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