MANILA - A lawmaker on Friday urged House Speaker Alan Peter Cayetano to refrain from absolving himself and blaming others for the shutdown of ABS-CBN Corp over its franchise renewal that stalled due
to Congress inaction.
"Cayetano himself made the mess by blindly kowtowing to President Rodrigo Duterte’s repeated personal opposition to the renewal which unduly stalled the approval of the extension," he added. The Speaker "cited his own personal grievances against ABS-CBN to justify his temporizing on the consideration of the 12 pending bills for renewal," said Lagman.
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