MANILA, Philippines – Various groups, including universities where Senate majority lawmakers graduated, and organizations they have patronized, have gone public with their disappointment at the senators they had once been proud of.
Atenean alumni, various bodies from De La Salle schools, The Outstanding Women in the Nation’s Service (TOWNS), artist groups, women’s rights groups, and farmers’ rights groups are among the latest to issue statements in the days after the escape of Senator Ronald dela Rosa and moves by the majority lawmakers, led by Senate President Alan Peter Cayetano, to allow online voting in the upper chamber.
Ateneans speak up about Ateneans in the Senate majority
Cayetano, Senators Jinggoy Estrada, and Camille Villar, all graduates of Ateneo de Manila University, received a rebuke from over 400 Ateneo faculty members, student, alumni, and staff who signed a statement entitled, “THE CALL TO BE THE LIGHT.”
The Ateneans condemned the three senators’ “actions [that] keep the truth hidden, and keep the light of truth covered under deceit and secrecy.”
