Imagine ah:
✅ 3 Former Senate Presidents with 8 years of experience in total being as Senate Presidents has spoken that it is lawful and within the Rules of The Senate
✅ The Lower House of Congress (House of Representatives) recognizing its lawfulness
✅ The Malacañang Palace (Executive) recognizing its lawfulness
✅ A landmark Supreme Court precedent that was used multiple times in the Senate Plenary
✅ The Integrated Bar of The Philippines saying its lawful
Ano pa ba kulang para paniwalaan ng lahat na quorum can be 12, if the active Senate membership is 23.
O, hindi porke't umatend si Chiz kaya nagkaroon ng quorum ang Senate, ligtas na siya sa flood control scam ha. Kung may warrant, ikulong din 'yan. Ganun dapat.
Hoy gising, Pilipinas! Hahayaan na lang ba ang pambababoy ng Duterte bloc sa Senado? Bakit di pa sila palayasin diyan kung ayaw nilang magtrabaho? Ano ‘to, nagpapasahod tayo ng mga ayaw magtrabaho habang tayong mga nagpapasweldo ay subsob sa trabaho? Nyeta!😡
Philippine senate used to have intellectual giants and people who can quote Cicero and Senaca during debates. Their interpellations and debates made them all legendary. Now, most of our current senators are intellectual pygmies, and absolute morons and troglodytes.
The Minority Bloc walked out in protest. The Majority Bloc did not show up.
There is a difference.
A protest challenges perceived abuses of power. Repeated absence from plenary sessions abandons the constitutional duty to legislate.
Thank you to the 11-member Minority Bloc for showing up today and demonstrating respect for the institution and the Filipino people. Regardless of political affiliation, attendance and participation in Senate proceedings are the minimum expectations of public service.
If the Majority Bloc led by SP Alan Cayetano continues to deny the Senate a quorum, it is not defending the institution — it is weakening it.
Again, public office is a public trust. ✊🏻
BINABALEWALA ANG ATING RULES. KAMI SA SB-11 AY TUTOL DITO DAHIL IMPUNITY ITO!
Ang nangyari ngayon ay malinaw na pag-abandona sa tungkulin, pagpapabaya sa responsibilidad, at tahasang pagsasawalang-bahala sa mga alituntunin ng institusyong ito. Hindi maaaring patigilin ang Senado sa pagtatrabaho dahil lang tumatangging mamuno ang presiding officer nito.
Absolute disrespect for the Filipino people. What entitlement.
Mag-boycott tayo.
Huwag mag trabaho.
Hayaan natin ang mga nakabinbing panukala.
Mga senador, binabayaran kayo ng taumbayan. Pambabastos ito sa Pilipino.
The Duterte-allied Senate majority bloc is a no-show for the 2nd straight session. Clearly, they’re protecting their political interests, and key bills affecting ordinary Filipinos are left in limbo.
So much for public service.
When trapos play their game of thrones, the Filipino people suffer. Gising, Pinas!
Alan Cayetano
Loren Legarda
Pia Cayetano
Bong Go
Robin Padilla
Rodante Marcoleta
Imee Marcos
Mark Villar
Camille Villar
Joel Villanueva
Chiz Escudero
Bato Dela Rosa
Lahat kayo mga walang malasakit sa taumbayan. Walang paninindigan. At mas inuuna ang mga kalagayan ng kasamahan nyong ninakawan ang bayan.
Nakakahiya. Nakakabastos. Nakakapagod para sa bawat Pilipinong binabayaran kayo para magtrabaho habang kayo sumasahod ng daang libo.
#Senado #CayetanoResign
So, kasalanan pa ng minority bloc na hindi nag-protesta dahil sinigawan ang Senate President natin? Actually, laking pasasalamat nga namin na hindi siya binigwasan ni Sec Jonvic dahil sa inasal niya kahapon. Damn your damdamin.
Senators were seen crying yesterday as a colleague was being arrested for plunder.
This is in no way an indictment of the accused senator but I would like to remind our lawmakers…
Iyakan n’yo ang ninanakawang Pilipino.
Iyakan n’yo ang binabaha dahil sa nakawan sa flood control.
Iyakan n’yo ang gutom nating mga kababayan.
Get out of your bubble. Please.
May problema talaga tayo as a nation kasi who votes for a 3-time plunderer into office at halos kalahati ng mga senador eh sangkot sa corruption at krimen. 🥲
(Kakalimutan pa ba natin na 'yung presidente eh anak ng diktador at 'yung bise eh anak ng mamamatay-tao).
Kung tatlong beses ka nang nakulong dahil sa plunder sa magkakaibang administrasyon, hindi pamumulitika ang tawag diyan.
KAWATAN KA TALAGA, JINGGOY ESTRADA.
Dalawang beses ka na nakalaya, sana gumawa ka na ng tama kaso nagnakaw ka pa ring kupal ka. Dasurb.
JINGGOY ESTRADA was wrong. The Minority Bloc did not have to recruit them to get the upper hand in the Senate. All they have to do is to wait. Most senators in the Majority Bloc face plunder charges and other cases. Its ranks will be decimated soon when its senators get jailed.
Busy po kasi sila ihatid yung friend nila sa kalungan, inuna po nila alalayan yung plunderer kesa magtrabaho para sa mga Pilipino. Ang lala mo, Alan Peter Cayetano. Ang lala ng Majority na ito.
Some of the notable walkouts in Philippine history:
1971 - Diliman Commune
1986 - COMELEC Tabulators at PICC (leading to EDSA 1)
2001 - House Prosecutors during Estrada impeachment (leading to EDSA 2)
2026 -Senate Minority bloc on changing the Senate Rules