Vice President Inday Sara Duterte made her own bed and she should lie in it. Her father, former President Rodrigo Duterte (PRRD) wasn’t short on advice to her in the lead up to the 2022 elections where Inday teamed up with then presidential candidate (now President) Bongbong Marcos. PRRD needed to be protected from his enemies after stepping down and have a chance at continuing what he started if only Inday agreed to the plan that she run for president with Senator Bong Go, or even former Philippine National Police (PNP) Chief — now Senator — Ronald ‘Bato’ dela Rosa. Instead, she made her own decision, listened to Bongbong’s sister Imee and former President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo (GMA), her two erstwhile allies in ousting Bebot Alvarez, and ran with Marcos.
Father knows best, specially one who has been in politics for a long time. You’re foolish and naive if you don’t watch your back in this game. Duterte wouldn’t have become president if it were not for the late former President Fidel Ramos being very wary at the prospect of either former Interior Secretary Mar Roxas, former Vice President Jejomar Binay or Senator Grace Poe becoming president. Ramos chose Duterte and had the Davao network, which supported him in 1992, do the same for Duterte’s campaign. Former Finance Secretary Sonny Dominguez was open to it because Duterte was his classmate in elementary through high school, before he got kicked out of Ateneo.
Inday does not have the kind of network PRRD had on hand to tap when he ran. Now, she’s put their whole family in the crosshairs of a demolition job because she’s still the frontrunner for the 2028 elections. If Marcos was sincere in getting her support, he would’ve protected her. But as we saw after the election, GMA was the first to be sidelined. Then Inday. One by one the Duterte appointees are being taken out of their posts. Inday is one of two big fish, the other being PRRD. Marcos won’t sick the International Criminal Court (ICC) on them but his lieutenants are going to make sure that they won’t be a threat come 2028.
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It won’t be a walk in the park because the Muslims are restive again because of Special Assistant to the President Antonio Lagdameo Jr who seems to be mishandling the fragile politics in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM). The peace that PRRD worked hard for in Mindanao may unravel under Lagdameo’s watch. At least the Maranaos in BARMM are still sticking to the plan. The Supreme Court ruling on Sulu is detrimental and could cause the resurgence of the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF). PRRD will make his last stand in Mindanao.
Inday has to step up to the plate and learn how to be a proper leader real quick. Otherwise, if PRRD goes, they may likely suffer the same fate as their grandfather, Vicente, who was sidelined by the late former President Ferdinand E. Marcos (FEM) in 1967. One could say he died of a broken heart. This is why PRRD never completely trusted the Marcoses. He paid his political debt by allowing Marcos’ burial and getting Imee elected as Senator. But he never appointed BBM to a government post in his administration. Nor did he help with his electoral protest. He knew better.
No amount of temper tantrums from Inday, will “stop” the demolition campaign against her family. Her most recent alboroto, threatening to backpedal on her father’s acquiescence to the burial of FEM at the Libingan ng mga Bayani (Heroes’ Cemetery) by digging up the latter’s remains and throwing them into the “West Philippine Sea”, comes across as infantile…
“Hindi ko alam. Isang beses sinabihan ko talaga si Sen. Imee (Marcos), ‘pag ‘di tumigil, huhukayin ko and tatay ninyo at itatapon ko sya sa West Philippine Sea,” Duterte said.
(I don’t know. One time, I told Sen. Imee that if it does not stop, I’ll dig up the body of your father and throw him in the West Philippine Sea.)
Duterte on Friday accused President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. of not knowing how to rule a country — her latest tirade against her running-mate in the 2022 elections.
…coming across as no more mature than the equally adolescent ‘activism’ of traditional anti-Marcos mobs.
Anti-Marcos ‘activists’ from the Yellowtard-Communist Axis demand the remains of Bongbong Marcos’s father be dug up and defiled.
Inday is responsible for the consequences of her actions and she should be more circumspect and pragmatic. She should take it upon herself to become the leader she can become on her own since she has said that she never listens to her father and she is her own person. With that assertion comes the task of taking personal accountability for the bind she finds herself in.
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“The Supreme Court ruling on Sulu is detrimental and could cause the resurgence of the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF).”
Well, Mr. Ortoll should ask the residents of Sulu why it rejected the Bangsamoro Organic Law in a plebiscite where 54 percent of residents voted “No” to BARMM as against “Yes” votes of 46 percent.
In its ruling, the SC upheld the validity of the BOL but declared as unconstitutional the inclusion of Sulu. It was wrong to include the province in BARMM.
According to reports, it’s Governor Sakur Tan who petitioned the SC against inclusion of Sulu in the BARMM.
They can only blame themselves.
https://sc.judiciary.gov.ph/sc-upholds-validity-of-bangsamoro-organic-law-declares-sulu-not-part-of-bangsamoro-region/
Why should Filipinos support the Duterte family instead of pushing for anti-political dynasty? That political family is just greedy for power like the rest of politicians. Inday and Bongbong just used each other for selfish interests.
Big NO for Duterte because they support Quiboloy, a person in the FBI’s most wanted list. There’s no reason to support someone escaping from American law.
On other hand, Philippine political dynasties are no different from criminal organizations.
No amount of temper tantrums from Inday, will “stop” the people’s perception of Inday running from accountability.