A party-list lawmaker representing overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) called for “equivalent retaliation” against Kuwait for the expulsion of the Philippine ambassador to the Gulf State, and said he would urge Congress to declare the Kuwait envoy to Manila persona non grata.

“What the Kuwaiti government did was a needless escalation of a simple diplomatic spat,” ACTS-OFW Rep. Aniceto ‘John’ Bertiz 3rd said in a statement.

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