Passing the seat to Senate Majority Leader Vicente \u201cTito\u201d Sotto III, Senator Aquilino \u201cKoko\u201d Pimentel III bids goodbye as Senate President.<\/p>\n
\u201cI step down knowing that I tried my best to do this. I wish my successor, Senator Sotto, good health and Godspeed and pledge to help the leadership pass pro-people legislation, consistent with the legislative agenda of the President,\u201d Pimentel said in his speech.<\/p>\n
This came after 15 senators signed a resolution seeking for the reshuffling of the upper chamber and petitioning Majority Leader Vicente Sotto III to take the headship.<\/p>\n
Pimentel said he is one with his colleagues in its aim to reorganize the Senate, thus, he announced: \u201cI will be the one to nominate Senator Tito Sotto III as the new Senate President today.\u201d<\/p>\n
The resolution, \u201cexpressing its sense to re-organize its leadership\u201d states that \u201cby a majority vote of all the senators, Senator Vicente C. Sotto III is hereby elected as the new Senate President to discharge the duties and powers granted to him by the Rules of the Senate.”<\/p>\n
Moreover, Pimentel said the way he handled the Senate was inspired by his father Aquilino Pimentel Jr, who was also a former Senate leader.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt has been an honor and a privilege for me to serve the Senate as its president, a position once held by my father. He served the Senate with dignity always staying true to his principles and consistently putting the interest of the nation before his and it was his example I had tried to emulate during my time at the helm of the Senate,\u201d Pimentel said.<\/p>\n
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