The House of Representatives votes for Leyte 1st District Rep. Ferdinand Martin Romualdez as Speaker during the opening of the 20th Congress on July 28, 2025. Dinagat Islands Rep. Kaka Bag-ao, Bacolod Rep. Albee Benitez, Mamamayang Liberal Rep. Leila de Lima, and Cebu 5th District Rep. Duke Frasco were among those who abstained. The lawmakers then took their oath before Romualdez at the plenary hall.
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00:12This is your presentation from the 1st District of Agusang del Sur.
00:17I call Frederick Martin Jiro Macbeth, of course.
00:22It's like building a conference for 2020.
00:33On behalf of the Trabaho of Martin, I vote for Honorable Frederick Martin Jiro Macbeth as Speaker.
00:51Please raise your right hand and repeat after me.
01:05Aye, stay jimane.
01:07Aye.
01:09Off.
01:12Have you been elected as representative of the Gulf?
01:16I have been elected as representative of the Gulf.
01:20Hereby solemnly swear that I will well and faithfully discharge to the best of my ability the duties of my personal position and all others that I may hereafter hold under the Republic of the Philippines.
01:42That I will support and defend the Constitution of the Philippines.
01:48That I will bear true faith in allegiance to the Saint.
01:51That I will read the laws, legal orders and degrees promulgated by the fully constituted authorities from the Republic of the Philippines.
02:04that I force this obligation, for myself voluntarily, without mental reservation or purpose of treason.
