House Reprimands Bong Suntay for Anne Curtis Analogy, Orders Community Service and Gender Seminar Instead of Suspension

The House of Representatives reprimanded Deputy Minority Leader Bong Suntay of Quezon City’s 4th District on June 3, 2026. The chamber voted 263-8-7 to approve the House ethics committee’s recommendation that Suntay render voluntary community service, attend a gender sensitivity seminar conducted by the House’s women and gender equality committee, and publicly apologize to Anne Curtis and all women.

The ethics committee found Suntay guilty of committing disorderly behavior.

Abalos added that “if we do not police our own ranks, we erode public trust for the entire legislature. ” The comments originated during a March 3, 2026, House justice committee hearing. Suntay used an analogy about fantasizing about actress Anne Curtis while attempting to defend Vice President Sara Duterte, who once said she has imagined decapitating President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.

The statements were immediately stricken off House records. Suntay later apologized to those who saw his remarks as malicious. Actress Anne Curtis released a statement on March 7, 2026, saying she did not accept the apology.

“Since you used me as an example, let me use you as one too. You’ve become the poster boy of something much bigger: a culture that still thinks it’s acceptable to talk about women this way. Worse, one that tolerates it from our leaders.

As they say, misogyny dressed up as a joke is still misogyny,” Curtis said. ” Rappler first reported on June 2, 2026, that the ethics committee had decided to recommend a lighter penalty. During Tuesday’s plenary proceedings into expelled congressman Kiko Barzaga’s case, Suntay thanked colleagues who moved not to suspend him.

Suntay attended an oath-taking ceremony in Camp Crame High School on December 2, 2025.