By MANILA, Philippines — Senate President Vicente Sotto III has no doubt and is “very confident” about the majority bloc’s support for his leadership.
Sotto made the statement on Monday amid persistent rumors of another attempt to change leadership in the upper chamber, where Senate President Pro Tempore Panfilo Lacson had warned that the majority’s thin lead over the nine minority senators could potentially lead to another coup attempt.
“That’s what I told the Senate president. I said, ‘We are 15, they are nine; don’t underestimate the nine,” Lacson, speaking in Filipino, said at an earlier Kapihan sa Senado, Sotto’s leadership was supported by 15 senators when he took the Senate presidency from Sen. Francis Escudero on Sept. 8.
