Will this be the triumphant return of the Liberal Party in
2022?
In an exclusive interview CNN Philippines The Source was
able to corner and ask Vice President Maria Leonor Robredo in its celebration
of ‘Womens Month’ regarding what has been happening to the Liberal Party chair.
The Vice President has been notably silent on the issues like the extension of martial
law in Mindanao, Mr. Duterte’s sexist remarks against women, shift from
Federalism, and the issue with respect to Rappler. *
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| Vice President Leni Robredo (photo credit to owner) |
But other prominent opposition personalities like
senators Rissa Hontiveros
and Leila de Lima, Ombudsman Conchita Carpio Morales, and Chief Justice Maria
Lourdes Sereno of the Supreme Court, have been openly criticising President
Rodrigo Roa Duterte whenever they can.
Pinky
Webb, the shows host point blank asked the Vice President if she not closing
the door on running in the 2022 elections.
"Ayoko
nang magsalita ng tapos kasi kinain ko na 'yung sinabi ko...twice.
"When I was being asked
to run in 2013, sabi ko [I said] over my dead body, [but] I ran," Robredo
said.
And in the elections of 2016,
Robredo hesitated to run as vice president.
"Pero again, pag tinapon
sa'yo ng tadhana, parang nangyayari talaga eh," she said.
She won the race for the Vice
Presidential race, beating the son of the late strongman former senator
Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. But is now facing election protest from the
latter which is now being deliberated in the Supreme Court.
The Vice President explains
that her foray in Philippine politics is just but a continuation of the work
that was started by her husband former Department of Interior and Local
Government Secretary Jesse Robredo. Jesse Robredo,is also a former Naga City mayor, is known for
his "tsinelas" (ordinary man's slippers) leadership for his programs
on poverty alleviation. *
"Parang 'yung asawa ko
talaga was the one who was talagang suited for a life like this. E bigla siyang
nawala [My husband was the one suited for a life like this. But he is suddenly
gone]," said Robredo.
Its
important for the Vice President to honor that legacy left by her husband, that’s
why she is in politics.
"Ang
feeling ko lang [I feel], I am continuing what he was supposed to do. Not as a
vice president but as a public servant," she said.
Report from CNN Phils
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