Serra will serve the unexpired term of Abundio dela Torre, which ends in a few weeks, on June 30.



The 5 PCUP officials, including its former chairman Terry Ridon, were sacked allegedly for excessive foreign travels and lack of meetings as a collegial body.



Melissa Aradanas, another of the dismissed PCUP officials, was appointed deputy commissioner at the Housing and Urban Development Coordinating Council by Duterte last March.