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Ping Lacson resignation

Latest Daily Tribune news and analysis on Ping Lacson resignation.

  1. Time to flush

    Time to flush

    The dramatic statements about ‘protecting the institution’ and ‘defending the Senate’s honor’ might have worked before, but not anymore.

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  2. Sink or swim? As Senator Panfilo Lacson (right) drops the Senate Blue Ribbon Committee like a hot potato, is Senate President Vicente Sotto III (inset) poised to do the same with the leadership of an upper chamber now neck-deep in the flood control scandal? The two legislators are facing a storm of their own after being accused of shielding former Speaker Martin Romualdez, the President’s cousin, from the committee’s probe.

    Lacson quits Blue Ribbon; Sotto next?

    Lacson’s resignation has reignited talks about widening cracks within the Senate majority, including questions about whether Sotto can maintain his grip on the…

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