Pormal nang nagbukas ang sesyon ng senado para sa 18th Congress.
Muling nahalal si Senador Vicente Sotto lll para sa kanyang ikalawang termino bilang Senate president.
Walang bumoto kontra kay Sotto bagamat nag abstain sa pagboto sina Senador Franklin Drilon, Francis Pangilinan at Risa Hontiveros.
Agad ring nanumpa si Sotto bilang ika 23rd pangulo ng Senado.
“Thank you for electing me today as the 23rd president. My call beginnings is to promise for the lifetime of the Congress and the nation, as continued to glow all over the political horizon and the unexpected happened.” — Pahayag ni Senate President Vicente “Tito” Sotto III
(with report from Cely Ortega- Bueno)
