31/05/2026
GIAN SOTTO TULOY TULOY ANG ARANGKADA..
KASAMA NYA ANG MGA SANGUNIANG KABATAAN CHAIRMAN , CONGRESSWOMAN MARIVIC CO PILAR NG DISTRITO 6 AT SI KONSEHAL VITO SOTTO NG KANILANG BUKSAN ANG ISA NANAMANG SPORTS PROGRAM PARA SA MGA KABATAANG QC.
DI NA MAPIGILAN ANG PAG USAD NG MGA PROGRAMANG PANG PALAKASAN SA LUNGSOD.
IPINAG PASALAMAT NMAN ITO NG MGA SK CHAIRMAN DAHIL KATUWANG NILA SI VICE MAYOR GIAN SOTTO PARA SA MGA MAKABULUHANG PROYEKTO.
PLANO PA NI GIAN SOTTO NA MAGING WORLD CLASS ANG MGA ATLETANG QCITIZENS SA MGA SUSUNOD NA PANAHON.
MABUHAY KA VICE MAYOR GIAN SOTTO. ✊🏻
27/05/2026
Tito Sotto shut down the Cayetano bloc’s ploy not with noise, not with theatrics, but with mastery of parliamentary procedure. The move to amend the Senate Rules to allow virtual voting or remote participation was clearly seen by many as a pathway to accommodate Bato Dela Rosa.
But Sotto understood something deeper: rules are not ornaments. Rules are the backbone of institutional legitimacy. When the majority tried to bend procedure to fit a political convenience, Sotto answered with procedure itself.
They mocked him for “Wangbol University.” They reduced him to a comedy noon time show. They laughed at the entertainer and ignored the legislator. But in that moment, the joke collapsed under the weight of experience. Tito Sotto showed that decades inside the Senate chamber teach a man things that slogans, press conferences, and political noise cannot. He knew where to stand, when to move, and how to use the rules not as decoration, but as a shield against abuse.
This was not merely a walkout.
It was a parliamentary counterstrike. It was precision. It was precedent. It was a veteran legislator recognizing that once the Senate allows its rules to be rewritten for one senator’s personal predicament, the institution itself becomes weaker. Today it may be for virtual attendance. Tomorrow it may be for shielding allies, manufacturing presence, or laundering absence into participation.
Sotto’s move proved that experience still matters. In a chamber increasingly consumed by spectacle, he reminded everyone that governance is not only about who has the numbers. It is also about who understands the rules well enough to stop the numbers from becoming tyranny. Majority power is not absolute power. Procedure exists precisely to keep ambition from disguising itself as reform.
Ridiculed by noise, but proof remains the loudest argument. Tito Sotto may have come from comedy, but what he displayed was statesmanship. Mastery of procedure, precision, and precedent became the instrument of accountability. And in that moment, the man they mocked as a product of “Wangbol University” gave the Senate a lesson in institutional memory, legislative discipline, and responsible governance.
- JLB
