The veteran lawmaker expressed "disappointment and disenchantment" in the new House leadership, accusing it of "perpetuating the practice of anointing the majority’s minority leader." "This is an open secret, a brutal fact," he said . "A eunuch of a minority leader who is a convenient adjunct of the majority coalition makes parliamentary democracy a shameful farce," he added.
Opposition lawmaker Edcel Lagman criticized the leadership of the House of Representatives for having a hand in the choice of minority leader, which he said makes parliamentary democracy "a shameful farce."
Lagman did not drop a name, but 4Ps party-list representative and former Immigration Commissioner Marcelino Libanan was elected as House minority leader earlier in the afternoon. Libanan responded by saying that Lagman should refrain from using unparliamentary language. He added his election is in accordance with the 1987 Constitution and the House rules which states that those who did not vote for the winning speaker will compose the Minority bloc and members of the Minority bloc will then elect their leader among themselves.
Libanan said that the 25 members of the minority bloc he heads represent millions of constituencies that should not be silenced.Lagman, however, maintained that he is just "calling a spade a spade."
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