CHANGE is expected to come under the administration of President Duterte. No such change is expected in the way politics is conducted in the House. In fact, it has even gotten worse under newly minted Speaker Pantaleon Alvarez despite his claimed adherence to Duterte’s promise that “change is coming.”

There’s nothing principled or democratic in Alvarez’s wanting to dictate on which group in the House should constitute the minority. It’s the way of conquering Huns. He already had a super majority in the bag so there’s no reason why he still wants to have a hand in the election of the minority leader except to humiliate perceived enemies. It was definitely a political overkill, which has no place in a democratic society.

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