[Rappler’s Best] Between the Senate crazies and your electric bill

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'As senators destabilize each other, we mortals have to live with skyrocketing electric bills'

It’s practically a draw at the Senate as of Monday morning, May 25, with neither of the two factions having the majority following the escape of Senator Ronald “Bato” dela Rosa, accused of crimes against humanity at the International Criminal Court (ICC). He was the clinch vote — 13th — in the coup that installed Senator Alan Peter Cayetano as Senate President on May 11.

Without Dela Rosa, that’s a 12-11 balance of power in the 24-person Senate — a precarious situation that has Cayetano praying his favorite Bible verses every night and the putschists thinking of earthly ways to unseat him. Whether the counter-coup happens this week hinges on the negotiations related to the ongoing flood control scandal probe into his allies and the trial of Vice President Sara Duterte, their patron.