Enough of this manipulative coyness. Now that a credible survey has shown that a clear majority of voting-age Filipinos do not want President Aquino to run for reelection, Malacañang and (some of) its allies should stop their half-hearted, half-baked but fully dangerous attempts to imagine a draft where none exists. We all know a draft when we see it, because it is a genuinely rare event in politics. The last sighting was in 2009, when a true groundswell of support lifted Corazon Aquino’s grieving son into the front rank of presidential candidates. Today, there is no such mass-based clamor for a second term for the President, which would require a complicated and never-before-attempted amendment of the Constitution in the first place. So enough already. Read more: opinion.inquirer.net/79070/no-more-coy-p-noy#ixzz3FMutGI7A Follow us: @inquirerdotnet on Twitter | inquirerdotnet on Facebook
Posted on: Mon, 06 Oct 2014 12:49:16 +0000