The Senate will resume plenary sessions next week even if the government decides to extend the implementation of the enhanced community quarantine (ECQ) in Metro Manila.
"We will indeed resume wether ECQ is extended or not," Senate President Vicente Sotto III said in a text message to reporters Thursday, August 19.
The upper chamber's plenary sessions, held in the afternoon from Monday to Wednesday, have been suspended since August 9 due to the reimposition of the ECQ over Metro Manila.
The ECQ was set to end on Friday, August 20.
Mayors in the region have left to the Inter-Agency Task Force (IATF) for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases to decided whether or not to extend the strictest quarantine classification.
According to Interior Secretary Eduardo Año, the IATF is mulling whether to extend the ECQ for another week, or to relax it to a modified ECQ.
Sotto said they could call the plenary sessions earlier than 3 p.m. in consideration of the curfew hours being implemented in the region.