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Briones denies being a sabungero, claiming someone simply sent him a cockfighting video while the session was ongoing, and since he wasn’t tech-savvy, he just clicked on it
The congressman caught watching a cockfight on his cellphone while the House was voting for a new speaker before President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.’s State of the Nation Address on Monday, July 28, has admitted it was him.
He is Nicanor Briones, representative of party-list group AGAP.
His name may not be that well-known, but he’s already a veteran in Congress.
He has 12 years of experience in the House, and is now serving his fifth non-consecutive term.
He was among those who worked for the passage of the Anti-Agricultural Economic Sabotage Act.
In the last Congress, he was active in the agriculture committee, which investigated price manipulators and greedy traders.
As of March, he is also chairman of the Pork Producers Federation of the Philippines.
Since AGAP joined the party-list elections in 2007, it has never lost.
In 2012, election watchdog Kontra Daya criticized AGAP, saying Briones was not part of the farmer sector and was, in fact, the owner of a large security firm.
As of 2016, his net worth stood at P56 million based on the last publicly available Statement of Assets, Liabilities, and Net Worth he filed.
He ran for governor of Batangas in 2016 but lost.
In a report by PTV, he denied being a cockfighter or participating in e-sabong. He claimed someone simply sent him a cockfighting video while the session was ongoing, and since he wasn’t tech-savvy, he just clicked on it.
He also objected to the supposed violation of his data privacy.
What about you — do you think Congressman Briones’ explanation is enough? – Rappler.com
The text above is an English translation, generated with an OpenAI model, of a partially modified transcript from a video report written and produced by Rappler reporter Dwight de Leon. The translation was reviewed by an editor prior to publication.
