Risa Hontiveros cannot be more perfect for the role. For one thing, she is ready, willing, and able. She’s not one to seek any leadership draft, but when duty calls, she steps up, and does it for the right reason.
With the emergence of a figure around whom civil society can rally around, it can now be said: The battle is joined.
Risa Hontiveros cannot be more perfect for the role. For one thing, she is ready, willing, and able. She’s not one to seek any leadership draft, but when duty calls, she steps up, and does it for the right reason.
It’s a trait belatedly recognized. Hontiveros’ low numbers at the polls, viewed shortsightedly before, no longer seem to matter, which to me suggests an awareness, finally, that the nation is in for a moral fight and that it, therefore, calls for a righteous leader.
A coalition of political and rights groups made the choice. It’s not usual for such a choice to go unquestioned in an opposition comprising groups always vying for ascendancy, the precise reason they are unable to come together. The rare consensus on Hontiveros has to do, I think, with her being the exact opposite of her rival.
