{"id":13877,"date":"2025-05-17T12:23:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-17T04:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/?p=13877"},"modified":"2025-05-19T00:24:20","modified_gmt":"2025-05-18T16:24:20","slug":"house-leaders-hold-unity-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/2025\/05\/17\/house-leaders-hold-unity-meeting\/","title":{"rendered":"HOUSE LEADERS HOLD \u2018UNITY MEETING\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong>HOUSE of Representatives\u2019 leaders on Friday conducted its first post-election meeting after the 2025 midterm elections to ensure stability and continuity for the 20th Congress.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong>The meeting, which was held at the Shangri-La Hotel in Makati City, focused on legislative priorities aligned with President Ferdinand \u201cBongbong\u201d R. Marcos Jr.\u2019s Bagong Pilipinas agenda, ensuring continuity in the present House leadership and administrative operations.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong>Present in the meeting were House Secretary General Reginald \u201cReggie\u201d S. Velasco; Reps. Yevgeny Vincente \u201cBambi\u201d B. Emano (Misamis Oriental, Nacionalista Party); Romeo M. Acop (Antipolo City, National Unity Party); Albert S. \u201cAbet\u201d Garcia (Bataan, NUP); and Jose \u201cBong\u201d J. Teves Jr. (TGP Party-list, Party-List Coalition Foundation Inc.); Alfredo A. \u201cPido\u201d Garbin Jr. (Ako Bicol Party-list, PCFI); and Reps. Jose C. \u201cPepito\u201d Alvarez (Palawan, NUP); and Wilfrido Mark M. Enverga (Quezon, Nationalist People\u2019s Coalition).<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong>Joining them were Deputy Speaker Kristine Singson-Meehan (Ilocos Sur, NPC); Rep. Luis Raymund \u201cLRay\u201d F. Villafuerte Jr. (Camarines Sur, NUP president); Ronnie Puno (NUP chairman); Senior Deputy Speaker Aurelio \u201cDong\u201d D. Gonzales Jr. (Pampanga, Lakas-Christian Muslim Democrats); Deputy Speaker David \u201cJay-jay\u201d C. Suarez (Quezon, Lakas-CMD treasurer); House Majority Leader Manuel Jose \u201cMannix\u201d M. Dalipe (Zamboanga City, Lakas-CMD); Rep. Eleandro Jesus F. \u201cBudoy\u201d Madrona (Romblon, Nacionalista Party); and Deputy Speaker Raymond Democrito C. Mendoza (TUCP Party-list, PCFI).<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HOUSE of Representatives&rsquo; leaders on Friday conducted its first post-election meeting after the 2025 midterm elections to ensure stability and continuity for the 20th Congress.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13878,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13877"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13877"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13879,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13877\/revisions\/13879"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}