Sen. Ping Lacson Steps Down as Senate Blue Ribbon Chair Amid Flood Control Probe and Peers’ Disappointment

Sunday, Oct. 5 – Senate President Pro Tempore Panfilo “Ping” Lacson announced that he will be stepping down as chairman of the Senate blue ribbon committee, reportedly due to dissatisfaction among his peers with his handling of the alleged flood control scandal.

“No amount of criticisms from misinformed netizens and partisan sectors can distract or pressure me from doing my job right, but when my own peers start expressing their group or individual sentiments, maybe it is best to vacate,” Lacson said.

Despite confirming his resignation as Senate Blue Ribbon Chair, he assured the public he would continue fighting what he described as a ‘corrupt and rotten system’ in the misuse and abuse of public funds.”

In a previous interview with Super Radyo dzBB, the senator told the reporter that he was considering quitting the chairmanship of the Senate Blue Ribbon Committee once his colleagues began to doubt him.

“Kung nagkukulang na ng pagtitiwala ang aking kasamahan, especially kung mas marami sa kanila, hindi na masaya sa pagha-handle sa akin sa blue ribbon, naisip ko na maybe stepping down is an option,” Lacson said in a radio interview.

[“If my colleagues have started to lose trust in me, especially if most of them are no longer happy with how I’m handling the Blue Ribbon Committee, I thought that maybe stepping down is an option.”]