Surigao del Sur Rep. Florencio Garay (2nd District, UNO) voted on Monday night for a change in leadership at the House of Representatives.
During the nominal voting at the plenary, Garay said "Yes" to the motion of Palawan Rep. Abraham Mitra for the House Speaker post to be vacant.
Speaker Jose de Venecia, Jr., who had held the post for 12 years already, had earlier admitted that the plan to oust him was being pushed by the lawmaker sons of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo after he failed to stop his son, Jose "Joey" III, from accusing First Gentleman Jose Miguel Arroyo of being involved in the controversial ZTE Corp. deal of the government for the multi-million-peso National Broadband Network project.
Garay, however, did not explain his vote, even as most of the minority in the Lower House, according to Paranaque Rep. Roilo Golez, have agreed to abstain from making a stand over the issue.
Garay is a first-term Congressman, who rose from being the mayor of Bislig City./END
Note: The writer is a native of Bislig City, Surigao del Sur.
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