Manila, May 21 -- Senate Deputy Minority Leader Risa Hontiveros on Wednesday said she is open to assuming the minority leadership in the 20th Congress, but emphasized that Senate reorganization remains a matter of numbers and individual choices.

"Of course, 'yun naman 'yung pangarap ng alin mang minority of an outgoing Congress, lalo na kung nakapagpanalo ng mga dagdag na kaalyadong senador (Of course, that's the aspiration of any minority member in an outgoing Congress, especially if there will be additional allied senators)," Hontiveros said during the Kapihan sa Senado forum.

She acknowledged, however, that the group with the next biggest number after the majority could claim the minority role, in which case she said she is prepared ...