MANILA: Former president and now Pampanga Rep. Gloria Macapagal Arroyo has denied allegations that she is seeking the removal of House of Representatives Speaker Faustino “Bojie” Dy III, saying that she is confident with the current leadership.
Arroyo on Friday (April 10) belied reports that came out from some news agencies, which claimed that Vice President Sara Duterte is talking to the Pampanga solon to unseat Dy.
“I categorically deny the allegations concerning the supposed ouster of Speaker Bojie Dy that surfaced yesterday. I reaffirm my confidence in his leadership of the House of Representatives,” Arroyo said in a post on her official Facebook account.
“Our mutual support, which began many years ago with his late father, remains unbroken,” she added.
It is unclear where such reports came from, but Arroyo has already stated several times that she is no longer interested in being a Speaker. At the start of the 20th Congress, Arroyo said that she would not seek the speakership and would instead support Leyte Rep. Ferdinand Martin Romualdez.
In a statement in July 2025 Arroyo’s office confirmed that Arroyo was among the Lakas-CMD members who signed the manifesto of support for Romualdez, Speaker of the House during the 19th Congress.
“Former President and now Congresswoman Gloria Macapagal Arroyo is not running for speaker and has signed the Lakas-CMD manifesto of support,” Arroyo’s office told reporters.
Last May 2023, during the 19th Congress, Arroyo was removed from her Senior Deputy Speaker post — which she said was because her actions were misconstrued as masterminding a coup against then Speaker Romualdez.
Eventually, the alleged power struggle within the House died down, after Romualdez, Arroyo, and her replacement former Senior Deputy Speaker Aurelio Gonzales Jr. were seen together at the rostrum.
Months after, as Arroyo failed to sign a manifesto that seeks to uphold the dignity of the House while it was being attacked verbally by former president Rodrigo Duterte, she was ultimately stripped of her Deputy Speaker role. - Philippine Daily Inquirer/ANN
