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MANILA, Philippines — Lawmakers on Tuesday voted to expel Cavite 4th District Rep. Kiko Barzaga over “disruptive” and “disorderly” behavior, making him the first in nearly three years to be expelled from the House of Representatives.
More than two-thirds of the House, or 265 lawmakers, voted in favor of the House ethics panel’s recommendation in Committee Report No. 298 that Barzaga should be expelled from the lower chamber over acts deemed unbecoming of a House member.
Fourteen voted against it, while eight abstained.
“Rep. Barzaga engaged in a pattern of highly disruptive, discourteous, and disorderly behavior that directly obstructed plenary sessions and desecrated parliamentary solemnity,” 4Ps Rep. JC Abalos, who heads the ethics committee, told the House floor in his sponsorship speech of the panel’s report.
