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Speaker Mendoza serves as the National President of the Veterans Foundation of the Philippines - Sons and Daughters Association. Being the son of the WWII veteran and Gold Cross awardee, the late Colonel Democrito T. Mendoza, Deputy Speaker Mendoza continues to lead in championing the legacy
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Assembly held in Phnom Penh, Cambodia in November 2022, Deputy Speaker Mendoza served as Head of the Philippine Delegation. In the 146th Inter-Parliamentary Union Assembly held in Manama, Bahrain in March 2023, he served as the Head of the Congressional Delegation. In the 44th AIPA General
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since 2000. In 2016, he served as the Head of the
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