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RG Cruz, ABS-CBN News

<figure class="op-interactive"><div id="IVS_ABS_Body_Video_1_Container"> <ivs-player id="IVS_ABS_Body_Video_1" data-ivs-spid="3001339" data-ivs-key="e8c22c015ca9eafa76f1e3edfa03c603" data-ivs-vid="1451330" data-ivs-floating="1"></ivs-player> <script src="https://player.ivideosmart.com/ivsplayer/v4/dist/js/iframe-parent.js"></script> <script src="https://player.ivideosmart.com/ivsplayer/v4/dist/js/loader.js"></script> </div></figure><p>House Majority Leader Rodolfo Fariñas scolded an employee of Bureau of Customs for calling House Speaker Pantaleon Alvarez an &quot;imbecile&quot; in a Facebook post.</p><p>Fariñas raised the issue during a hearing of the House Ways and Means Committee which involved the Bureau of Customs.</p><p>&quot;This was sent to me by a lot of members, they were taken aback. I couldn&#x27;t believe it myself that a government official would do it,&quot; he said.</p><p>On June 16, Mandy Mercado Anderson, a consultant and head executive assistant to Customs Commissioner Nicanor Faeldon, posted on her personal Facebook page an article about Alvarez&#x27; threat to dissolve the Court of Appeals over their release order for the six Ilocos Norte provincial officials who were detained by the Lower House.</p><p>In her caption, he called the lawmaker an &quot;imbecile&quot; for even thinking of doing so.</p><p>Anderson, to her defense, said she only posted her personal opinion.</p><p>&quot;For the record, this is my own personal page but that was not meant to be a political statement but rather just a personal feeling,&quot; she told Fariñas.</p><p>She eventually apologized to the lawmakers but not to the speaker.</p>

<p>House Majority Leader Rodolfo Fariñas scolded an employee of Bureau of Customs for calling House Speaker Pantaleon Alvarez an "imbecile" in a Facebook post.</p>

House Majority Leader Rodolfo Fariñas scolded an employee of Bureau of Customs for calling House Speaker Pantaleon Alvarez an "imbecile" in a Facebook post.

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WATCH: Fariñas lashes out at Customs' employee for rude Facebook post

RG Cruz,

ABS-CBN News

Published Jul 26, 2017 07:07 PM PHT

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Updated Jul 26, 2017 09:56 PM PHT

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