Erwin Tulfo to Alan Peter Cayetano: 'Go back to work'

Senator Erwin Tulfo on Monday urged Senate Minority Floor Leader Alan Peter Cayetano to stop name-calling other senators and return to work.

"Pasok na lang kayo, sir. Tulad po ng kapatid ninyo, pumasok na last week at iyong mga kasamahan," Tulfo told "BaliTanghali".

(Just go back to work, sir. Follow your sibling and colleagues and just return to work.)

"Pasok po kayo para may Senate minority leader. Mas maganda kapag dito tayo mag-diskurso at 'wag na sa Facebook," he said.

(Just return to work so there will be a Senate minority leader. It will also be better if we will discuss issues here at the Senate and not on Facebook.)

GMA News Online reached out to Cayetano for comment but he has yet to respond.

Last week, Cayetano aired fresh accusations against some members of the new Senate majority, calling them “lapdogs” of Malacañang. He called Senate President Pro Tempore Vicente “Tito” Sotto III and Senator Raffy Tulfo as “lapdogs” of President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr.

Cayetano also called Erwin Tulfo a “lapdog” of Senator Panfilo “Ping” Lacson.

Sotto earlier said Cayetano's remakrs were a "waste of time" while Lacson said he may be on the brink of a "meltdown."

"Kawawa naman. Kung anu-ano na ang sinasabi. Parang malapit nang bumigay. Sana hindi tuluyang mag-meltdown," Lacson added.

(I pity him. He's starting to speak nonsense. It seems he's about to give way. I hope he doesn't suffer a meltdown.)

Cayetano has repeatedly insisted that Malacañang had a hand in the recent Senate leadership shakeup. On June 8, the lawmaker said the chamber was divided into two leadership groups, with one being led by the Palace, as he offered an “interim administrative arrangement” with Senator Sherwin Gatchalian.

Gatchalian rejected the proposal.

To recall, Gatchalian was installed as Senate President Pro Tempore on June 3 after senators previously aligned with the minority bloc convened and elected him.

He was later formally elected as the new Senate president during a special session on June 17, replacing Cayetano and ending the leadership dispute in the chamber. —KG, GMA News