The fare hike in the Metro Rail Transit and Light Rail Transit that started on Sunday drew support from various leaders of the House of Representatives, particularly from groups of congressmen from Visayas and Mindanao, a Palace official said on Sunday.

”Although there are groups who are opposing the fare increase, there are people who are supporting it and these are groups who represent the people in the House of Representatives,” Presidential Communications Operations Office (PCOO) Secretary Herminio Coloma Jr. said in a Radyo ng Bayan interview.

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