Lakas-CMD, PDP-Laban sign partnership agreement

Stalwarts of the Lakas-CMD and the PDP-Laban have signed a partnership agreement.

According to a report on "State of the Nation", the signing happened after Pampanga Rep. Aurelio "Dong" Gonzales took his oath as Senior Deputy Speaker.

Gonzales replaced his province mate Pampanga Rep. Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, who's also a former Speaker and a former President.

The details of the agreement have yet to be released.

Speaker Martin Romualdez and Arroyo are party mates in the Lakas-CMD. Romualdez is the party president while Arroyo is its chairperson-emeritus.

Gonzales is a member of the former ruling party PDP-Laban.

The House of Representatives elected Gonzales the top deputy speaker on Wednesday.

A day later, Arroyo denied reports that she was involved in a plot to unseat Romualdez as Speaker.

On Friday, Vice President Sara Duterte resigned from the Lakas-CMD, under which she ran in Eleksyon 2022.

Arroyo and Sara were then seen in a photo together with several other personalities supposedly after a lunch for birthday celebrants.

On Monday, Romualdez and Gonzales paid their respects to Arroyo by bowing and placing her hand on their foreheads.

This happened before Gonzales took his oath as Senior Deputy Speaker, which Arroyo witnessed while standing with Romualdez and Gonzales at the House rostrum. —NB, GMA Integrated News