00:00Senator Win Gatchalian is elected as the new Senate President.
00:04This comes after Senator Joel Villanueva joined the new majority in a special session Wednesday, June 17,
00:11giving Gatchalian the 13 votes needed to secure the position.
00:14Senator Tito Soto, who is elected Senate President Pro Tempore, and Majority Leader Senator Mig Zubiri also take their oath.
00:21Senator J.B. Ejercito and Villanueva are also elected Senior Deputy Majority Leader and Deputy Majority Leader, respectively.
00:28No member of the new minority bloc attended the election of the Senate President.
00:33Senators Loren Legarda, Pia Cayetano, Camille Villar, Aimee Marcos, Rodante Marcoleta, and Bongo attend the session later on.
00:41Meantime, Senator Alan Peter Cayetano gives up his claim to the Senate Presidency, he says in a Facebook post an
00:47hour before the special session.
00:49Cayetano acknowledges defeat after talking to Villanueva.
00:52Until Wednesday morning, Cayetano and his bloc disputed Gatchalian's role as acting Senate President,
00:57insisting Cayetano was the legitimate and moral Senate President.
01:01Cayetano did not attend the special session but was elected to his old position, the minority leadership, following a manifestation
01:08by his ally, Legarda.
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