AT the oathtaking ceremony of Pampanga congressman Aurelio “Dong” Gonzales Jr. as Senior Deputy Speaker of the House, Speaker Ferdinand Martin Romualdez took the hand of former president Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, whom he had removed from that very same post on May 17 for allegedly trying to organize a “coup” against him, and touched it to his forehead in a token gesture of ancestral respect.