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Roque spread 'fake news': Kabayan representative

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Trishia Billones, 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="1447718" 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>MANILA - Former representative and now presidential spokesman Harry Roque allegedly spread lies about a party congress, invalidating the list submitted to the Commission on Elections, a lawmaker said. </p><p>&quot;What Harry Roque was telling us all along, these are all fake news, these are false. It’s a lie, completely,&quot; Kabayan Party-list Representative Ron Salo told ANC&#x27;s Headstart.</p><p>&quot;These particular people that he called, this is a bogus, an illegal party congress. He convened this particular group as well at the time when we kicked him out,&quot; he added.</p><p>Salo said the current constitution of the party-list does not provide for a party congress, but only allows a board and a general assembly.</p><p>Roque, however, said Salo was the real &quot;purveyor of fake news&quot; as he asserted that Atty. Ciriaco Calalang should not be his successor.</p><p>He added, participants in the supposed party congress were not members of Kabayan Party-list or have since been expelled.</p><p>&quot;He is willing to go to that extent of organizing these people, using these people, convening these people, pretending to everyone that these are the people when in fact they are not,&quot; said Salo.</p><p>However, Roque said if anyone was spreading fake news, it was not him, but Salo, who as early as January claimed he had ceased to be a member of the House of Representatives.</p><ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="http://news.abs-cbn.com/news/01/24/17/kabayan-party-removes-harry-roque-as-representative">READ: Kabayan Party &#x27;removes&#x27; Harry Roque as representative</a></li>	<li><a href="http://news.abs-cbn.com/news/01/25/17/despite-party-list-expulsion-harry-roque-still-a-congressman-fellow-lawmaker-says">READ: Despite party-list expulsion, Harry Roque still a congressman, fellow lawmaker says</a></li></ul><p>&quot;People clearly know that for one year, he has been spreading the lie that I have ceased to be a congressman because I was expelled by my party-list,&quot; he said.</p><p>Roque said Salo raised the issue to the Commission on Elections, the House of Representatives Electoral Tribunal, and the House Speaker, but no action was taken.</p><p>&quot;That means that contrary to his views, as first nominee, as the face of Kabayan, as the lone person who campaign for Kabayan to end up #6 out of 115 party-list, I am the legitimate face behind Kabayan and therefore I could not been expelled,&quot; he said.</p><p>&quot;The problem with Cong. Salo is he has this impression that just because he said so, institutions will follow. Facts, the law, decisions of HRET and the Comelec belie and will illustrate who is the purveyor of fake news—that’s Ron Salo,&quot; he said.</p><p>In a statement on Monday, Roque said the group’s 52 voting members pronounced through a party congress on October 28 that the nominees submitted by Salo were &quot;not recognized.&quot; </p><p>Those in the list were Calalang, Paul Hernandez, and Joshua Sebastian.</p><p>Salo and Roque have been at odds at whether or not Calalang should replace Roque in the House of Representatives after assuming the post of presidential spokesperson.</p><figure class="op-interactive"><div id="IVS_ABS_Body_Video_2_Container"> <ivs-player id="IVS_ABS_Body_Video_2" data-ivs-spid="3001339" data-ivs-key="e8c22c015ca9eafa76f1e3edfa03c603" data-ivs-vid="1447720" 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>Salo said Roque has no say in the matter since he has not been a member of the group as early as January.</p><p>&quot;He threatened us that he will use his influence and all the influence and resources of his office for him to obstruct the proclamation of Calalang,&quot; he said.</p><p>&quot;It’s really difficult considering he’s the presidential spokesperson. He may really use the powers of his office and honestly, who are we in the first place. The member of this party-list, we’re all ordinary people,&quot; he added.</p><p>Asserting that he is still a member of the party-list, Roque said he is blocking Calalang&#x27;s proclamation because the latter has been sanctioned by the Supreme Court.</p><p>Roque said he and other members of the Kabayan Party-list will submit their own list of nominees to fill in the vacancy.</p>

<p>Former representative and now presidential spokesman Harry Roque allegedly spread lies about a party congress, invalidating the list submitted to the Commission on Elections.</p>

Former representative and now presidential spokesman Harry Roque allegedly spread lies about a party congress, invalidating the list submitted to the Commission on Elections.

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Roque spread 'fake news': Kabayan representative

Trishia Billones,

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Published Nov 07, 2017 08:00 PM PHT

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