Social media is vibrant with people voicing their outrage. (Although, malevolent forces are actively at work sowing confusion.) The public demands accountability. That’s democracy functioning! The Trillion Peso protest rallies last Sept. 21, and another one being organized on Nov. 30, are vivid demonstrations of people participating in governance.It is lamentable that the senators are taking it negatively.
There are no reports in the media that the incoming president Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos is scheming to replace Alan Cayetano in the Senate.
Sa Administrative Code of 1987, na naglilista ng mga 30 batayan para sa aksyong pandisiplina kabilang ang kawalang-galang at kahiya-hiyang pag-uugali, walang mga pagkakaiba sa mga opisyal ng publiko batay sa kanilang mga tungkulin.
The Administrative Code of 1987 does not make distinctions among public officials.
From the fragmented information about the resumption of talks on joint exploration with China in the disputed parts of the Spratlys, what is emerging is a repeat of jumbo loans that the administration of Gloria Arroyo obtained from the Chinese government in 2004 in exchange for agreeing to allow China to explore within the country’s economic exclusive zone.
The appointment of Sen. Alan Peter Cayetano as foreign secretary is an indication that the Duterte administration is feeling the heat of a negative international image and needs somebody who can passionately defend the President’s human rights record as what the senator did last week before the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva.
It looks like Sen. Alan Peter Cayetano will finally be the foreign secretary come May when the one-year election ban for those who ran in the last elections would expire.
