Abaya ran again in the 2019 House of Representatives elections and won with 78.56% of his district's votes. In the current 18th Congress, Abaya is serving as the chairman of the House Special Committee on Bases Conversion; vice-chairman of the Committees on Climate Change, Information and Communications Technology, and Science and Technology; and member of the Committees on Government Enterprises and Privatization, Housing and Urban Development, and Social Services. He is among the 12 members of the opposition Liberal Party that joined the “Super Majority Coalition” of the House of Representatives which is dominated by allies of President Rodrigo Duterte.
