By Liezelle Soriano
MANILA — House Speaker Martin Romualdez said that he agrees with the Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) in their message to support Vice President Sara Duterte-Carpio.
“I agree with the overseas Filipino worker who greeted me in Japan with a placard bearing a significant message. We should all support and respect the Vice President,” Romualdez said in a statement.
“The same respect and support that we should extend to the President and other government officials,” he added.
The statement was made after his encounter with OFWs in Japan, in which he was greeted by them with placards: “Please support VP Inday Sara Duterte.”
Romualdez is a former Lakas-Christian Muslim Democrats (Lakas-CMD) partymate of Vice President Sara Duterte-Carpio before the latter resigned last May lamenting political “toxicity” and “powerplay” within the ruling political party.
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