However Roque would be expelled from Kabayan in January 2017 citing his "dishonorable behavior" during the House of Representatives inquiry in November 2016 regarding activities involving the illegal drug trade in the New Bilibid Prison where Roque and other legislator's where criticized for inappropriate line of questioning towards Ronnie Dayan, the former lover of then Senator Leila de Lima and alleged bagman.

[5] Roque was appointed the spokesperson of President Rodrigo Duterte rendering his cases in the COMELEC for ouster moot and academic.

[6] Roque's successor Ciriaco Calalang died in office on September 23, 2018 and was replaced by Paul Hernandez.

[8][9] Kabayan's declared platform of core advocacies are summised in the acronym "KABAYAN+2" with the marginalized as their named primary target demographic.

They also aimed for a legislation which would create a Department of Housing and seek to promote capability-building in cooperativism and micro-financing for micro, small and medium enterprises.