By Kaela Patricia B. Gabriel
SENATE President Alan Peter S. Cayetano should step down as Senate president after majority lawmakers skipped sessions for a second time this week, the Senate minority bloc said on Tuesday, holding key legislative work hostage.
Minority senators, referred to as the “Solid Bloc 11,” appeared before the media at the Session Hall addressing the second day of the majority’s no-show, maintaining that the Cayetano-led bloc’s absence demonstrated a “dereliction of duty.”
“The Senate could not be made to stop working simply because its presiding officer refuses to,” Senator Erwin T. Tulfo said during the minority bloc’s briefing.
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