It’s final: The House of Representatives will have two speakers in the 18th Congress — Alan Peter Cayetano and Lord Allan Velasco.

President Rodrigo Duterte on Monday said Cayetano and Velasco would share the speaker’s term of office, ending the bitter row that had festered for weeks.

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