John Nery posted: " Opposition stalwart Sonny Trillanes' baffling display of "performative political puritanism" is undermining opposition leader Leni Robredo. He should stop, and recalibrate. Published today, August 3, 2021. After another round of sniping at Vice Pr"
Opposition stalwart Sonny Trillanes' baffling display of "performative political puritanism" is undermining opposition leader Leni Robredo. He should stop, and recalibrate. Published today, August 3, 2021.
After another round of sniping at Vice President Leni Robredo last week, former senator Sonny Trillanes issued a lengthy explanation yesterday. The statement is a significant walking-back of his supporters' more aggressive comments, but it still retains a warning against the leader of the opposition. He said he and his Magdalo group want 1) only Robredo to run as the united opposition candidate for president, 2) either Isko Moreno or Grace Poe to serve as Robredo's running mate, and 3) Robredo not to ally with "Duterte collaborators" Ping Lacson or Dick Gordon. That he included this last demand as one of the "non-negotiables" or "red lines" is only the most manifest threat.
But Trillanes, whom I respect and who has told me on several occasions that he was working to make a Robredo presidential run happen, is being less than fully forthcoming in his statement. There is a larger context, visible on social media but also audible through the communication lines that connect the political class, that frankly worries me, and I suppose others like me who actually believe in the first premise of Trillanes' statement: That the "mission" is to ensure the rejection of the Dutertes at the polls. The way Trillanes is acting is undermining both Robredo and that mission.
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