SEN. Ping Lacson on Sunday described as “fake” a supposed “breaking news” post from a Davao City-based online news platform claiming that a counter-coup in the Senate was brewing.
Last Sept. 8, then Senate minority leader Tito Sotto III was elected Senate president, ousting Sen. Francis Escudero, who later on joined the minority bloc.
Lacson, Sotto’s longtime ally, was elected Senate president pro tempore and was given the Senate Blue Ribbon Committee chairmanship.
“Peke (fake). Intended to deceive and confuse. Underestimating the intelligence of the new Senate majority bloc,” Lacson said of the news report.
“Malevolent, underhanded, foul and desperate. Kung may song na (if there’s a song) ‘Achy Breaky Hearts,’ eto naman (this is) — ‘Faky Breaky News,’” he wrote on X.
“The proper and professional way is to call or approach the Senate president, inform and show him the resolution signed by at least 13 senators, then the sitting Senate President resigns at the opening of the session, not through a media outlet, whether nationally recognized or obscure,” Lacson said.
