Senate President Vicente Sotto asks Senator Imee Marcos: 'Then why did you not object? Senator Dela Rosa abstained. If you were in the session hall, then you should have abstained.'
ABSTAIN. Senator Imee Marcos tells the Senate plenary she wants to change her vote on the resolution backing the review of the Visiting Forces Agreement. File photo by Angie de Silva/Rappler
Senator Aquilino Pimentel III, a Duterte partymate in ruling party PDP-Laban, sponsored the resolution on Monday night, February 10. Under parliamentary rules, once the chamber has reached quorum during attendance roll call, it can be carried until the end of the session, unless somebody objects. Therefore, senators who were not inside the Session hall were deemed in favor of the measure.
"May I therefore, having been recorded as voting in the affirmative, reconsider that vote under our rules where it is allowed in the next two session days," Marcos said. The only difference with the other senators is that Marcos was in the session hall when the voting commenced.
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