FROM 318, members of the House of Representatives is down to 316 following the resignation of two partylist congressmen.
The two party-list congressmen – both members of the majority – resigned a week after voting affirmative to the Articles of Impeachment against Vice President Sara Duterte.
However, neither Rep. Nathaniel Oducado (1-Tahanan) nor Rep. Franz Vincent Legazpi (Pinoy Workers) offered an explanation behind their resignation.
Their resignation was announced Deputy Majority Leader Zamboanga del Sur, 2nd district Rep. Jeyzel Victoria Yu on Monday night, May 18 during plenary at the House of Representatives.
Yu read into record that the plenary received the letters from Oducado and Legazpi.
“Mr. Speaker, in view of the resignation…may we request that the secretary-general be directed to drop [the representatives’ names] from the roll of members of the House of Representatives,” Yu said.
Deputy Speaker Lanao del Sur 2nd district Rep. Yasser Alonto Balindong, the presiding officer at that time, seconded the motion to have Oducado and Legazpi’s names removed from the official roll.
Prior to their resignations, Navotas City Rep. Toby Tiangco accused the majority of intimidating House members to vote for the Articles of Impeachment if only to ensure that the case is elevated to the Senate impeachment court.
Other members of the lower chamber who have relinquished their position in congress were Zaldy Co (Ako Bicol) and Edvic Yap (ACT-CIS). Both are being linked to the notoriously famous flood control scandal.
