What are the chances of a congressman bumping into a colleague who's wearing a similarly-patterned coat?
This happy coincidence occurred to Ilocos Norte 1st district Rep. Sandro Marcos and Cavite 8th district Rep. Aniela Tolentino during one of the plenary sessions earlier this week. It just so happened that both are neophytes or first-time House members.
Tolentino, daughter former Deputy Speaker Abraham "Bambol" Tolentino, uploaded an Instagram story about the coat "matching", while also tagging the presidential son.
Marcos would later repost her story.
There are 311 House members in the 19th Congress. More than half of them are either rookie or returning solons.