LUBAO, Pampanga- Outgoing House Speaker and former President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo plans to spend time to finish her memoirs, now that she is finally retiring from politics.
This was among the retirement plans she revealed when she arrived at the San Nicolas Elementary School here to cast her votes last Monday morning.
The former president, who is on her last term as congresswoman representing the second district of Pampanga, said, however, that she would continue to serve her “cabalens” as consultant to the provincial government.
She was listed as 74th in the voters’ list posted at the entrance to Precinct 001A.
Her husband Miguel and eldest son MIkey and his wife Angela also cast their votes at the school.
Mikey, a former Pampanga vice governor and congressman, got overwhelming votes for Congress in his mother’s second district in Pampanga.
Arroyo told media at the precinct that her presidential term had brought financial and fiscal stability to the country, reducing the poverty rate from 39 to 26 percent.
Arroyo is known to be a close ally of outgoing Pampanga Gov. Lilia Pineda who run opposed for vice governor, even as her son Dennis got landslide win as governor.