NEWS UPDATE: Responding to reporters' queries on why she was stripped of her House senior deputy speakership post, Gloria Macapagal Arroyo said in a brief statement: 'It's the prerogative of the House.' | via newsdwight STORY:
MANILA, Philippines – Former president Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo is no longer the House’s second highest-ranking official, after she was stripped of her senior deputy speakership post.
In the last minutes of the plenary session on Wednesday, May 17, the House promoted Deputy Speaker Aurelio “Dong” Gonzales Jr. to the post vacated by Arroyo, while the congresswoman was given Gonzales’ old post.In a statement, House Majority Leader Mannix Dalipe said the move was meant to relieve Arroyo of huge tasks that come with being senior deputy speaker.
“The House of Representatives has elected Deputy Speaker Aurelio ‘Dong’ Gonzales Jr. as senior deputy speaker to unburden his, former president Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, of the heavy load required from the position,” Dalipe said in a statement.A deputy speaker is the second highest-ranking official in the lower chamber, but there are nine lawmakers who have the same title. They preside over plenary sessions in the absence of the House speaker.
Gonzales, meanwhile, is a member of PDP-Laban, which was the ruling party under the previous administration of Rodrigo Duterte.
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