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‘Just a listener... adviser... enabler’: Senate President Vicente C. Sotto III being sworn in by Senator Panfilo Lacson as the 23rd Senate President during the opening of the First Regular Session of the 18th Congress Monday, July 22. With Sotto are the members of his family led by wife Helen Gamboa. In his acceptance speech, Sotto stressed that being elected Senate President does not mean that he will be superior to other senators but just “your listener, your adviser...your enabler for anything within my power to do so.” Beside Lacson is Senate President Pro-Tempore Ralph Recto. (PRIB Photo by Joseph Vidal/22 July 2019)