With the marginalization of Vice President Leni Robredo by the Duterte administration which prompted her resignation as Housing Secretary, the Liberal Party (LP) must rethink its alliance with President Duterte’s ruling party, the PDP-Laban.
Robredo is the highest ranking LP-elected official.
Righteous indignation impelled Robredo’s quitting her cabinet post since no self-respecting official must suffer any further the grave assaults on her person and position, like the following:
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It is the height of imprudence and discourtesy to bar Robredo, a cabinet member, from attending cabinet meetings.
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The series of macho rubbish directed on Robredo during cabinet meetings and other occasions offends decency.
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It is too much an insult to a sitting Vice President for President Duterte to intimate his preference for Ferdinand Marcos, Jr. as vice president, the very candidate Robredo beat in the elections and whose electoral protest Duterte is inclined to support.
The LP’s disengagement from the supermajority and assuming the role of political opposition will strengthen the authentic minority as an indispensable institution in a democracy.
The break will also further energize efforts to contain and oppose administration policies violative of the Constitution and inimical to the people’s welfare.
EDCEL C. LAGMAN