The House of Representatives’ Committees on Legislative Franchise and Good Government and Public Accountability held a hearing on ABS-CBN franchise bills on Monday, June 8, 2020. Deputy Speaker Rodante Marcoleta (Sagip Party-list) other lawmakers have been discussing the US-born ABS-CBN chairman Gabby Lopez’s dual citizenship in the House hearings. 

Earlier in the hearing, Marcoleta asked Lopez to recite the first line from the “Panatang Makabayan” or Patriotic Oath that school children were made to recite before class. This would supposedly show that Lopez is “100-percent” Filipino despite Philippine law allowing dual citizenship, according to Philstar report. 

According to ABS-CBN Reporter Mike Navallo, Marcoleta is one of the principal authors of GMA Network, Inc. (Formerly Republic Broadcasting System, Inc. 

Marcoleta said that ABS-CBN reporter Mike Navallo did not show Filipino values for a story that was released before the lawmaker could answer allegations in a press conference. 

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Marcoleta response to Navallo’s report, “”Allegiance po ay importante ma-instill natin sa ABSCBN, ang kaugaliang Pilipino. Yung ginawa po ung reporter na ‘yun na banatan po ako sa kabila ng pagsang-ayon na yan kami ay magzuzoom kinabukasan, hindi po ugaling Pilipino yun,” source Philstar. 

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