Tag: Vicente Sotto III

Home » Vicente Sotto III
Post

Escudero loses Senate presidency to Sotto as scandal over multibillion-peso flood projects rages

Francis Escudero lost the Senate presidency to Vicente Sotto III on Monday, just over a month after his reelection to the post—a sign that senators are listening to public opinion, according to a political analyst.  The change in leadership in the Senate occurred in the face of growing public anger over the government’s multibillion-peso flood...

Post

Sotto says he and Lacson will ensure no repeat of national budget ‘mangled in the Senate’

Whether they end up in the majority or minority bloc, Sen. Vicente Sotto III said, he and Sen. Panfilo Lacson will make sure that there will be no repeat of a “national budget” that was “mangled” last year in the Senate. The two lawmakers said they had been looking into irregularities in the ₱6.326-trillion national budget...