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Sen. Tito Sotto (left) and Sen. Ping Lacson in file photo. INQUIRER PHOTO / NINO JESUS ORBETA
MANILA, Philippines — Sen. Vicente “Tito” Sotto III lost the Senate presidency because he did not have multibillion pesos at his disposal, unlike his predecessor, to “look after” his colleagues, a member of the minority bloc said on Friday.
“The issue that reached us is that Senator Sotto supposedly did not know how to look after (“mag-alaga”) his fellow senators,” Sen. Panfilo “Ping” Lacson said in an interview on radio station True FM.
“My reaction was: ‘Doesn’t know how to look after them?’ I said, Senate President Sotto did not have P142 billion that he could distribute to fellow senators,” he added.
