IN HAPPIER TIMES. Speaker Alvarez and big businessman Floirendo, with (right) the latter’s partner, Cathy Binag, who had a verbal altercation with the speaker’s girlfriend Jennifer Vicencio (inset) that led to the two lawmakers’ feud.

After five years, and huge legal costs for him, the suit was dismissed in 2010. Probably because of the financial and emotional costs of that suit, Alvarez’s political career in Davao del Norte seemed ended, with Liberal Party stalwart Antonio Rafael del Rosario winning his former post as congressman for Davao del Norte’s first district for two terms.

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