My spouse not running, says Mikey Arroyo

Mikey Arroyo and Angela Montenegro Arroyo. INQUIRER PHOTO/JOAN BONDOC

Ang Galing Pinoy party-list Representative Juan Miguel “Mikey” Arroyo on Monday denied that his wife, Angela Montenegro Arroyo, was entering politics.

“It’s not true and it’s not worth talking about,” said Mikey in a text message, following talk that his mother, former President turned Pampanga Representative Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, was giving up her House seat in favor of his wife.

Slightly more than one year before the next elections, the minority in Congress has no idea if Arroyo will seek reelection in Pampanga’s second district.

“I have no idea,” both Minority Leader and Quezon Representative Danilo Suarez and Deputy Minority Leader and Zambales Representative Milagros Magsaysay said in separate text messages.

Angela Arroyo was said to be applying for a change of address next week in preparation for her election bid, after her mother-in-law, who is under police detention, was said not to be seeking reelection next year.

Mikey Arroyo himself had been representative of the second district until 2010 when his mother ran for the seat after her term as president ended.

Former President Arroyo is currently detained at Veterans Memorial Medical Center on a charge of electoral sabotage.

Her spokespersons, Elena Bautista-Horn and Raul Lambino, did not respond to calls from the Philippine Daily Inquirer. Gil C. Cabacungan