{"id":20032,"date":"2026-05-12T01:03:53","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T17:03:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/?p=20032"},"modified":"2026-05-12T18:03:39","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T10:03:39","slug":"sotto-out-cayetano-in-as-senate-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/2026\/05\/12\/sotto-out-cayetano-in-as-senate-president\/","title":{"rendered":"SOTTO OUT, CAYETANO IN AS SENATE PRESIDENT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>SENATOR \u00a0Alan Peter Cayetano on Monday was elected Senate President replacing Sen. Vicente \u201cTito\u201d Sotto III.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Thirteen senators voted in favor of the motion to change the Chamber&#8217;s leadership,\u00a0 nine voted against it while two abstained.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The election of the new Senate leader came after a majority of senators voted to declare all leadership positions in the Chamber vacant and supported a leadership change, <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Cayetano was nominated by Sen. Imee Marcos. Following no objection from other senators, Sen. Joel Villanueva moved to close the nomination.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Among those who voted in favor of Cayetano was his sister Sen. Pia Cayetano and\u00a0 Senators Ronald \u201cBato&#8221; dela Rosa,\u00a0 \u00a0Francis &#8220;Chiz&#8221; Escudero, Bong Go, Jinggoy Estrada, Loren Legarda, Rodante Marcoleta, Imee Marcos, Robin Padilla, Joel Villanueva, Mark Villar, Camille Villar and Sotto.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Those who voted to retain Sotto as Senate President were Senators Bam Aquino, Risa Hontiveros, Panfilo Lacson, Sherwin Gatchalian, Lito Lapid, Francis &#8220;Kiko&#8221; Pangilinan, Erwin Tulfo, Raffy Tulfo,\u00a0 and Alan Peter Cayetano.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>By tradition, candidates do not vote for themselves.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Meanwhile, Senators Juan Miguel Zubiri and JV Ejercito abstained.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Senator Loren Legarda was reinstalled as Senate President Pro Tempore.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The leadership change took effect as the House of Representatives were moving to vote on the impeachment case against Vice President Sara Duterte.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SENATOR &nbsp;Alan Peter Cayetano on Monday was elected Senate President replacing Sen. Vicente &ldquo;Tito&rdquo; Sotto III. Thirteen senators voted in favor of the motion to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20033,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20032"}],"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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20032"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20041,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20032\/revisions\/20041"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}