Screengrabbed from Sen. Alan Peter Cayetano’s June 18, 2026 Facebook Live
MANILA, Philippines — Former Senate President Alan Peter Cayetano on Thursday accused Sen. Panfilo Lacson of being “divisive” and engaging in “intellectual dishonesty” after the latter claimed that the Senate spent P700 million during Cayetano’s 28-day stint as Senate president with only “chaos” as the outcome.
“I said, where could that figure have come from? Then I said, since Senator Lacson is very good at dividing things, very divisive. I divided it myself. Seven hundred million pesos divided by 28 days is 25 million pesos,” Cayetano said mostly in Filipino during a Facebook live
“Where is the intellectual dishonesty in that? Where is the attempt to hide the truth?” he went on.
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