MANILA, Philippines-On his return to the chamber he painfully left nearly five years ago, Senator-elect Juan Miguel Zubiri is hoping for a unified Senate, praying foremost that the seeming tug-of-war for the Senate presidency between two friends could be settled peacefully soon.
Zubiri, who received a fresh mandate in the May polls after resigning over what he called "false" fraud allegations in 2011, expressed hope that Sen. Aquilino "Koko" Pimentel III and Alan Peter Cayetano could settle the Senate leadership, so that the chamber could support incoming president Rodrigo Duterte as one.
Pimentel, president of Duterte's party, PDP-Laban, and Cayetano, the incoming president's running mate who lost the vice presidential election, are known to be jockeying for the Senate presidency. The former has, however, secured the support of most of his colleagues in the chamber.
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