Villar to help resolve row over Senate committees
Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2019 09:05:58 +0000
VILLAR
Senator Cynthia Villar has committed to help in resolving the Senate majority’s problem on committee chairmanships, according to Senate President Vicente Sotto III.
There have been speculations that Villar was pushed to replace Sotto as the Senate president should neophyte senators fail to get their preferred committees.
Villar did not sign the draft resolution maintaining the Sotto’s leadership in the next Congress, fearing that her partymates senators-elect Pia Cayetano and Imee Marcos would be left out.
Sotto said he had a “fruitful” talk with Villar over phone. Their discussion, he said, focused on the chairmanships and Villar’s concerns for her Nacionalista Party allies.
“She is helping to settle some issues on chairmanships,” Sotto told reporters.
The Senate chief, on the other hand, said they were not able to discuss the draft resolution earlier supported by 14 incumbent majority bloc senators sans Villar.
Meanwhile, Senator Grace Poe on Thursday opted to keep mum about her supposed plan to give up her chairmanship of the Senate Committee on Public Information and Mass Media to newly-elected senators. (Vanne Terrazola)