Speaker Feliciano Belmonte Jr. of Quezon City won’t be supporting the call of his colleagues for the Sandiganbayan to grant Christmas furlough to detained former President and now Rep. Gloria Arroyo of Pampanga.

Belmonte was referring to House Resolution 537 authored by Rep. Silvestre Bello 3rd of 1-BAP party-list—a House resolution supported by 41 other lawmakers, 12 of them belonging from the ruling Liberal Party (LP) chaired by President Benigno Aquino 3rd.

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