Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, January 22) — Former House Speaker Pantaleon Alvarez topped the Commission on Audit’s (COA) list of spenders in the House of Representatives for 2017.
Based on the COA’s itemized list of amounts paid to and expenses incurred by lawmakers, Alvarez spent ₱43.7 million on his second year as speaker, ₱30.4 million of which went to office consultants.
Pwersa ng Bayaning Atleta Party-list Representative Jericho Nograles followed Alvarez in the list with a total of ₱23.4 million expenses that year.
In third place was Kalinga congressman Allen Jesse Mangaoang with ₱22 million, followed by former DIWA Party-list Representative and now Department of Justice Undersecretary Emmeline Aglipay-Villar with ₱20.5 million.
Rounding up the top five list was North Cotabato Representative Nancy Catamco with her 2017 expenditures reaching ₱20.62 million.
