‘One major move to ease the volatile political tension is for Marcos is to appoint some leaders of the opposition to the Cabinet and to government agencies. But there are doubts he would do that.’
YOU knew something was amiss with President Duterte’s prolonged and strange silence during the three-month campaign. Earlier on, the opposition bloc in the Senate had expressed alarm when F2 Logistics, owned by the President’s friend and business associate, Dennis Uy, won the contract for the distribution of vote-counting machines all over the country.
The opposition now want answers to some allegedly dismaying events. From VP Leni QC supporter: “Leni’s votes were 14 million in 2016. No endorsements by celebs. No flash mobs. No tao-sa-tao and house-to-house. Tapos ngayon with all the heavy outpouring of endorsements, bumaba pa mga votes nya to 12M only??? Ano yon!!!” Many of us could not believe that 50 percent of votes were transmitted in 2 hours surpassing even the US highly-automated elections. And what about the statistically and utterly impossible uninterrupted 68:32 ratio of votes of BBM to Leni??
Message to top PR executive Jingjing Villanueva by one of her good friends: “From a very reliable source. My friend whose son is an active military officer who graduated from the PMA told his Mom to stop fighting hard for Leni. Allegedly, a Chinese IT expert was hired to program the outcome of the elections, which can penetrate the Comelec transparency server. Thus, the 3x faster results. It could not be traced where the results were coming from.”
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As I pointed out last month, incumbent local officials who had proven their worth in the battle against the pandemic would be repaid by their constituents. Marikina Mayor Marcy Teodoro won by a mile against First District Rep. and former mayor Bayani Fernando — 183,879 to 40,100 votes. Fernando’s exemplary track record as a truly outstanding top city executive was eclipsed by Teodoro, who courageously and relentlessly rose to the occasion even if he himself got infected with COVID-19. There seems to be little that can compare with the deep compassion and loving concern exhibited by Teodoro for his people in the middle of their sorrow, pain, and suffering.
The people of Pasig showed Vico Sotto their tremendous gratitude for his equally endless compassionate, selfless and remarkably competent handling of the COVID crisis with a record avalanche of votes of over 600,000.
Many Quezon City residents could not hide their disappointment with incumbent Mayor Joy Belmonte’s relatively lackluster COVID management when they went to the polls last May 9. But she still beat her main rival, Mike Defensor, getting 617,908 votes to Defensor’s 389,336.
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The huge political divide in our country should compel Bongbong Marcos to be a “healing” president. But many political analysts seriously doubt Marcos’s capacity to lead due to numerous serious and raging issues hounding him and his family.
There are rumors swirling in Metro Manila that two out of five Filipinos are planning to leave the country. One major move to ease the volatile political tension is for Marcos is to appoint some leaders of the opposition to the Cabinet and to government agencies. But there are doubts he would he do that.
Would he try to equal Lincoln’s avowed task of nation-rebuilding after a great, brutal conflict in the US with an enduring pledge in his Gettysburg Address of “no malice towards none?” Lincoln told his loved ones and friends that It was God who directed him, a bible-believing President, to be a national “healer.”
