Bansa | Philstar.com

Sen. Mark Villar yesterday bolted the minority led by Sen. Alan Peter Cayetano to join the majority, beefing up the composition of the dominant bloc to 14 of the 24 senators. Villar’s move to join the majority led by Senate President Sherwin Gatchalian was confirmed during yesterday’s plenary session, where Majority Leader Juan Miguel Zubiri also revealed Villar’s election as the new chairman of the Senate public works committee and member of the Commission on Appointments.

With the prosecution panel wrapping up its presentation of witnesses, Vice President Sara Duterte’s defense team has declared its readiness to present witnesses.

Spouses Vice President Sara Duterte and Manases Carpio earned only a total of P85.3 million as lawyers in a span of 18 years from 2007 to 2025, an official of the Bureau of Internal Revenue disclosed before the Senate impeachment court yesterday.

Senators passed a resolution yesterday ratifying the country’s Status of Visiting Forces Agreement (SOVFA) with France, which was signed in Paris last March.

Vice President Sara Duterte did not appear at the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) headquarters yesterday to personally answer the allegations hurled against her by dismissed police officer Rodulfo Gracioso Jr.