Third District Congresswoman Gwen Garcia. (TD)
FORMER president and now Pampanga Rep. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo led the lawmakers who were elected as Deputy Speakers in the House of Representatives.
During the plenary session on Monday, Majority Floor Leader Rudy Fariñas announced the following lawmakers who were elected as Deputy Speakers in the 17th Congress:
-Pampanga Rep. Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
-Taguig Rep. and former senator Pia Cayetano
-Cebu Rep. Gwendolyn Garcia
-Davao City Rep. Mylene Garcia-Albano
-Aambis Owa Rep. Sharon Garin
Arroyo, who was released from hospital detention after four years when the Supreme Court dismissed her plunder case, had said before that she was elected as Deputy Speaker to lead the Central Luzon bloc in the lower chamber.
Arroyo said her nomination as Deputy Speaker of the Central Luzon bloc was part of the plan to divide the House of Representatives into 12 federal states to test the waters for a federal system of government.