Philippine lawmaker quits top job amid graft probe

The speaker of the Philippine House of Representatives tendered his resignation on Wednesday after his name surfaced in a mounting corruption scandal, less than two weeks after the country’s Senate president suffered the same fate.

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Martin Romualdez, a cousin of President Ferdinand Marcos, told lawmakers he was leaving the post with a “clear conscience” so that a newly established investigatory body could do its job without “undue influence”.

Public anger over so-called ghost infrastructure projects has been intensifying since Marcos put them centre stage in a July state of the nation address that followed weeks of deadly flooding.