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Senate President Alan Peter Cayetano once served as House speaker during the Duterte administration
Alan Peter Cayetano joined a short list of lawmakers who led both the upper and lower chambers of Congress, after a coup installed him as Senate president on May 11.
His Senate presidency started off with a literal bang, as two days into his assumption of the post, a shooting incident took place amid the Senate’s attempts to protect Senator Bato dela Rosa from an International Criminal Court (ICC) arrest warrant. There are political observers who are of the opinion that the day Cayetano assumed the top Senate post was the day the Senate died.
Cayetano served as House speaker from 2019 to 2020. Here’s a look back at his 15-month-long speakership, which was also marked by controversy.
