ACT Teachers Party-list Rep. France Castro (PPAB)

The House of Representatives is ready and willing to provide additional security personnel for ACT Teachers Party-list Rep. France Castro.

Thus, said House Secretary General Reginald Velasco in an interview Monday, Oct. 16 even as multiple congressmen expressed messages of support for Castro amid former president Rodrigo Duterte's "death threats" against her. 

"If congresswoman Castro will request for it, I'm sure we can provide. We can accommodate that," Velasco said. 
"Pero so far wala namang request na ganun (But so far, there is no such request)," said the highest-ranked civilian official in the House. 
"But if any life of any congressman/congresswoman is threatened, that is duty of our security to secure the congressman/congresswoman," underscored Velasco. 

Last week, Duterte was quoted as saying that the confidential funds his daughter Vice President Sara Duterte asked for would be used for the reestablishment of the Reserve Officers' Training Corps (ROTC) and to fight off communist recruiters in the educational system.  

“Pero, ang una mong target sa intelligence fund mo, kayo, ikaw France, kayong mga komunista ang gusto kong patayin,” he said.  

(But the first target of your intelligence fund, you people, you France, you communists are the ones I want to kill.)  

Castro, a veteran legislator in the lower chamber, is a member the militant Makabayan bloc.