Philippines moves to remove Parliament House Speaker to save Budget 2021


MANILA, Oct 12, Philippine Inquirer/ANN — A “solid majority” of lawmakers in the House of Representatives will assemble to declare the post of Speaker Alan Peter Cayetano vacant and elect Rep. Lord Allan Velasco on Monday, saying that the lower chamber needs a leader “with a heart of a public servant, and not with a heart of a tyrant.”

In a manifesto sent by Velasco’s camp to INQUIRER.net, 187 lawmakers cited Section 13 of the Rules of the House which states that “a vacancy is created whenever any of the officers dies, resigns, or is permanently incapacitated, or when the House declares any office vacant.”

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