Senator Alan Cayetano elected Senate President with 13 affirmative votes — ANC

[0:00] Mr. President, this voucher removed that we consider the closing of the nomination of the Senate President, Mr. President, and we'd like to give the floor to Senator Ping Lakshan. So move, Mr. President. [0:22] Thank you, Mr. President. I move to nominate Senator Vicente Soto III to the position of the Senate President. [0:38] Mr. President, there are two nominations, Mr. President. [1:13] What we will do now is conduct the voting, Mr. President. [1:17] One is Senator Alan Peter Cayetano and the other is Senator Tito Soto. [1:24] Pursuant to Section 2 of the rules of the Senate, we will now proceed with the roll call vote. [1:32] Secretary, please. [1:32] Roll call of members. [1:48] Senator Escudero, Senator Escudero, Senator Estrada, Senator Cayetano Pia, Senator Gachalian, Senator Goh, Senator Hontiveros, Senator Lacson, Senator Lapid, Senator Legarda, Senator Marcoleta, Senator Marcos, Senator Padilla, Senator Pangilinan, Senator Tulfo Irwin, Senator Tulfo Rafi, Senator Villanueva, Senator Villar Camille, Senator Villar Mark, Senator Subiri. [2:44] Senator Subiri. [2:45] I would like to be an independent member of the Senate. [2:54] What is your vote, Senator Subiri? [2:55] Abstention. [2:58] Senator Soto III. [3:00] Cayetano. [3:04] May we get the results, please? [3:30] 13.9.2. [3:32] 13.9.2. [3:32] With 13 votes for Senator Alan Peter Cayetano and 9 votes for Senator Tito Soto and 2 abstention, Senator Cayetano is hereby elected as the new Senate President. [3:56] Session suspended. [3:57] All right, we just heard the Senate vote. [4:03] 13 voting for Senator Alan Peter Cayetano, who is now elected new Senate President. [4:09] 9 voted for Tito Soto while 2 voted for abstention. [4:15] So Senator Alan Peter Cayetano has been elected as the new Senate President. [4:21] Again, the vote was 13 for Cayetano, 9 for Tito Soto to abstain. [4:28] Senator Alan Peter Cayetano is now the newly elected Senate President. [4:36] Again, he has his plate full. [4:40] He will head the chamber if and when it convenes as an impeachment court. [4:45] Also, there is still the pending Blue Ribbon Committee investigation into corruption allegations in flood control projects, [4:51] where some of their colleagues in the Senate were also dragged into the controversy. [5:18] So Mr. Cayetano was actually, he is, so Senate President Alan Peter Cayetano is the new Senate President, [5:26] to hold leadership positions in both chambers of Congress. [5:30] As for history and for context, Cayetano was also House Speaker back in 2019 to 2020. [5:38] Now that bit of fact coming from our veteran correspondent, R.G. Cruz. [5:42] There you go. [5:44] If you will see, we're actually monitoring two things, the Senate leadership change, [5:49] and in the smaller box there, we're showing you what's happening in the House. [5:53] Thank you.