PRESS STATEMENT
Office of Rep. Edcel C. Lagman
(LP-Albay)
0916-6406737 / 0918-9120137
27 July 2016
A contingent of 20 "abstentionists" delivered this morning to the House supermajority the latter’s chosen minority leader, Rep. Danilo Suarez.
After abstaining from voting for Speaker Pantaleon Alvarez, their majority coalition’s candidate for Speaker, the 20 majority allies conspired with alacrity in electing a “minority leader”.
LIBERAL Party (LP) member and Albay Rep. Edcel Lagman has accused incoming Speaker Pantaleon Alvarez and former Vice President Jejomar Binay of hatching a “sinister plot” to control the minority bloc in the 17th Congress.
According to Lagman, Alvarez and Binay met with Quezon Rep. Danilo Suarez, who was being groomed to lead the minority bloc.
“Alvarez told Binay that he was ‘comfortable’ with Suarez as minority leader and assured [him of] Suarez’s victory,” Lagman said in a statement. Both Binay and Suarez are members of the United Nationalist Alliance (UNA).
MANILA, Philippines – Senators who run for other elective positions during their incumbency should be considered resigned, according to the "anti balik-pwesto" bill filed by Albay Representative Edcel Lagman.
House Bill No. 1340 seeks the automatic resignation of all elective officials upon filing of their certificates of candidacy during their term of office for positions other than to which they have been elected or holding in a permanent capacity.
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Albay Rep. Edcel Lagman’s recently-filed divorce bill seeks “a merciful liberation of the hapless wife from a long-dead marriage”—a dramatic summation of the state of the union among many wedded couples in this very Catholic country.
Given the Catholic Church’s perpetual threat to defiant lawmakers of damnation at the polls, Lagman might appear to be tilting at windmills with his latest bill. But surely the man has proven his mettle when he steadfastly shepherded the controversial reproductive health bill into law despite conservative forces blocking its passage for 14 years.
PRESS RELEASE
Office of Rep. Edcel C. Lagman
(LP-Albay)
0916-6406737 / 0918-9120137
05 July 2016
The enactment of an absolute divorce bill could be faster and easier than the tortuous passage of the reproductive health bill, which is now a law as R.A. No. 10354.
This is the projection of Rep. Edcel C. Lagman who filed HB No. 116 instituting absolute divorce in the Philippines.
Lagman also shepherded the approval of the RH law which he principally authored and underwent a 13-year odyssey before its approval.
