The House of Representatives passed a resolution on Wednesday expressing its condolences to the family of a leading member of the “progressive bloc” in Congress under then President Corazon Aquino.
Speaker Feliciano Belmonte, Majority Leader Neptali Gonzales II and Minority Leader Edcel Lagman sponsored House Resolution 184 condoling with the family of the former Representative Venancio Tuazon Garduce, who died of cardiopulmonary arrest on October 11. He was 80.
Garduce served as congressman of the second district of Samar from 1987 to 1992. He was one of only three candidates—the other two being Greg Andolana of North Cotabato and guest senatorial bet Wigberto Tañada—from the leftwing Partido ng Bayan who won in the first elections for the reinstalled Congress with the downfall of the Marcos regime at Edsa 1 in 1986.
His remains lie at the St. Peter’s Memorial Chapels on Quezon Avenue, Quezon City, where they will be cremated tomorrow. He is survived by his wife Felina, seven sons and daughters and more than a dozen grandchildren.