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Hopefully, the Senate teleserye will make everyone see the glaringly wrong choices that were made, and in 2028 onwards, not commit the same mistakes
Is the current Senate an institution that statesmen like Claro M. Recto, Lorenzo Tañada, Jose W. Diokno, Benigno “Ninoy” Aquino Jr., Jovito Salonga, Nene Pimentel, Miriam Santiago, Rene Saguisag, Joker Arroyo, or Frank Drilon would recognize today? (READ: Pre-Martial Law senators’ families speak out: ‘This isn’t the Senate we knew’)
It’s obviously a rhetorical question.
Wednesday’s political maneuverings saw the former minority senators — Tito Sotto, Bam Aquino, Sherwin Gatchalian, Risa Hontiveros, Ping Lacson, Lito Lapid, Kiko Pangilinan, Erwin Tulfo, Raffy Tulfo, JV Ejercito, Migz Zubiri — being joined by Chiz Escudero to constitute a “legal” quorum and elect a new president pro tempore. That pro temp, Gatchalian, who had already been previously floated as a possible Senate president, is now acting Senate president. They constitute the new majority. Given the fluidity of things, we’re never sure what will come next.
