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THURSDAY JUNE 27, 20,19
Itlilee [acfis Uelasco
for llouse $Reafier
lPacrnan partylist Rep. Midael
Romero, president of the %Mist
Coalfion Foundation Inc., Vesterdav
confirmed that he has sioned the
manifesto of support br die speat-
eEhip bid of Marinduque Rep. Lord
Allan Velasm, sfessinq that he has
been gnnted by the seord large$
political bloc in be House the blanket
au$ority to do so.
'"fonight we will rab.ry what I
signed," Romeb said as he called for
a rneetjng of the rcFI bst nighl
In a resolution signed b/ rcFI
members on June 19, the oEaniza-
tion affirmed Romero's role as their
represenEtive'Yor any speakershitr
related represenbton.,,
In the same resohjtion, be Dar-
tylist bloc declared: '"That we. a
54 members of rcFI, will vole ficr
Speakership in the lgth Conoress
as a bloc with a sinqle and comimon
doiae, both individually and collec-
tively."
The rcFI also stessed Ulat it
ib ,\^/holly
was intenbbn b support
the choice of President Rodrioo Roa
Duterte br Speakership, sholh he,
thmugh Sen. Bong Go and or Mapi
rempo
Sara DuterteGrpio, publicly en-
dorse a S@ker aspirant for the 18th
Congress."
Romero \aas among the signato-
ries of the "Multi party Manifesto of
Suppod' dedaring Velasco as their
doice for House Speaker
"We are firmly convine that Rep.
Lord Allan Jay e. Velasco is imbued
witfi the leadership qualities to steer
and united the entire House of nep-
resenbtives in $e passage of crucial
legislatirc refonns in support of the
legislative agenda of president Rodri-
go Roa Duterte in order to safequard
the counwl e@nomic oains arid so-
cial progress," the maniiesto said. '
The signstories also slr€ssed that
the decd speaker of the House
should "sen/e a full term to com-
plebly realize his Excellencv,s leqisla-
tive ageMa."
Aside fiom Romero, signing the
manifesto were Reps, Aurelio Gon-
zales, occlrtive vice president of
PDFLaban; Mlchael John Duavit and
Wesley catchalian of the Nationalist
People's Coalition, and kistjne Sino-
son Meehan, representing the Nor6-
em Luzon Alliance. (Ben Rcario)
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