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Marcos denies hand in Zubiri’s ouster as Senate president
President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. denied involvement in the change of leadership in the Senate, where Senator Francis Escudero replaced Juan Miguel Zubiri as Senate President.
Marcos asserted that the decision to change the Senate leadership was made by the Senators themselves.
He mentioned that Senator Escudero had informed him of his plan to become Senate President.
However, Marcos stated he was out of town and did not speak to any parties involved at the endpoint of the leadership change.
Zubiri alluded to outside forces as behind his ouster, saying he lost his post for supposedly failing to "follow instructions from the powers that be."
Marcos stated he was not sure what Zubiri was referring to when he mentioned "powers that be" but acknowledged that if it meant the President, he had not spoken to Zubiri about it.
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