Political rivals Senator Alan Peter Cayetano and Senator Aquilino "Koko" Pimentel look like they have buried the hatchet.
During a meeting with President Rodrigo Duterte, Pimentel, who heads President's PDP-Laban party, had apparently already gotten the numbers to clinch the Senate presidency.
But it remains unclear if Cayetano, who was also the running mate for Duterte during the election period, had already withdrawn the bid for Senate presidency.
Regardless, both Pimentel and Cayetano agreed to the verdict, and they would work together to support the President’s legislative agenda.
"Our last conversation in front of the President was that we are together. We belong to one camp, and we should work together. That’s the message I got from him. That’s also my message to him. So that should be it," Pimentel told reporters yesterday.
Asked how he took Cayetano’s words, Pimentel replied: "The meaning beyond the words, you better ask Alan. But that was our exchange. And that’s what has long been on my mind, that we are together. That is the clear agreement."
"He made that statement before the President, in the presence of the President. So OK na ‘yon (so that’s that)," he said on the sidelines of a PDP-Laban luncheon held in Makati City.
Cayetano could not be reached for comment about the matter.
Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer
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