MANILA, Philippines — President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. expressed hope that the Senate will now "become more orderly" under the leadership of Senate President Sherwin Gatchalian so that the upper chamber can "finally proceed with the normal conduct of governance.”
The President issued the statement a day after Gatchalian was elected Senate president after weeks of a power struggle with former Senate President Alan Peter Cayetano.
"Well, that is exactly what we have been all hoping for – that things become more orderly, that the Senate runs smoothly. Everyone knows what happened," Marcos said during the Kapihan with the Philippine media in Kazan, Russia on Thursday.
"I will support whoever the Senate chooses, as long as the process that they undertook in making a choice is proper, is legal, is constitutional, then that’s fine with me," he added.
