House de facto first lady Yedda Romualdez handles the chamber's internal budget worth billions of pesos and heads foundations that allow her to establish deep relationships with female lawmakers. More in this in-depth story by Dwight de Leon:
MANILA, Philippines – Speaker Martin Romualdez’s most indispensable asset in the House of Representatives is a partnership that goesYedda Romualdez, also a sitting congresswoman, is an ally who, for better or for worse, will never turn on her husband, the Speaker.
But unlike Lani, Yedda yields a more significant amount of power, running a crucial committee that allows her to manage the chamber’s internal budget worth billions of pesos. When her husband Martin returned to the House in 2019, she gave way and returned the district post to him, but she remained in the chamber as the representative of rising party-list group Tingog, whichIn 2022, Tingog’s popularity skyrocketed, more than doubling the votes it obtained from the previous elections, and finishing third in a very crowded party-list race.
“She had a private life, although she is married to a politician. Yes, she would participate in outreach programs, but not on the political side,” he told Rappler in mid-June.Yedda is the granddaughter of late Visayan lawyer and labor leader Democrito Mendoza, whose son TUCP Representative Raymond Mendoza is among the Speaker’s nine deputy speakers in the current Congress. of businessman Martin, who first saw her photo at a shopping mall in Cebu.
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