Sotto’s chance

It’s easy to explain why the Senate majority chose to elect Sen. Vicente “Tito” Sotto 3rd as its 29th president.

At this juncture in the country’s history, the Senate – an institution prone to bottlenecks and inertia – needs an old hand to steer important legislation and reforms in the little time that is left before Congress begins amending the 1987 Constitution to shift to a federal system of government.