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Opinion

Four bully dynasties against one brave VP Leni  

WHAT MATTERS MOST - Atty. Josephus B. Jimenez - The Freeman

What the trapos’ political dynasties are trying to do right now is apparently to terrorize the only true opposition; the poor widow without billions, but one strong woman with nothing but a pure heart, a sharp mind, and a determined will to fight until the last drop of her blood. The aristocrats have formed a cartel or an alliance against one brave soul.

The mastermind of all these is GMA, who silently in her heart appears to be afraid that if VP Leni wins the cases against her may take a very difficult turn for the worse. The Erap Dynasty is crumbling, or has already crumbled in 2019 when both sons JV and Jinggoy lost their senatorial bids. Thus, Erap needs an alliance with GMA. Of course, he could not say no to the summons of GMA who pardoned him and released him from detention. Marcos needs this strong alliance backing him up because, on his own, his solid north may not be enough to win over Leni who beat him in 2019.

Marcos and GMA are the most incompatible and odd partners if we talk about their respective late fathers. Diosdado P. Macapagal was the president and Ferdinand E. Marcos was the Senate president in the late ‘50s and the early ‘60s. They both started as pillars of the Liberal Party. Macapagal promised Marcos the run for the presidency under LP. After his only term. Macapagal assured Marcos that he would not run for reelection. But that promise was broken. Thus, immediately Marcos shifted to the Nacionalista Party, then edged out Fernando Lopez and Emmanuel Pelaez, Marcos grabbed the NP candidacy from long-time and loyal candidates. The rest is history.

GMA and Erap are also odd partners. It was GMA who ousted Erap and peremptorily assumed the presidency, even when Erap never resigned, was never sick much less disabled. And Erap hated GMA being partly responsible for his detention. Only presidents Duterte and Marcos should have been a perfect pair of allies. The father of President Rody, Vicente, was Marcos' Cabinet member. And the Marcoses have been very supportive of the Duterte presidency. And, had it not been Alan Peter Cayetano, the most probable teammate of Duterte in 2019 could have been Bongbong.

Now that the four dynasties; the Marcoses, the Macapagals, the Estradas, and the Dutertes are all coming together fighting just one frail widow. The people, being Asians and being Filipinos, would really love the underdog. Not only because of her multiple handicaps in money, organization, and experiences in the dog-eat-dog kind of politics, but being aware of the tremendous and fierce powers of these four trapo political dynasties with which to crush VP Leni's struggles could really demoralize the timid and the weak. But not VP Leni. She is one brave and strong woman with a never-say-no, no retreat-no surrender strong will.

All these people are afraid of the truth, they are all afraid of the silent dignity and the uncompromising rectitude of one brave and honest woman. They can never put a good woman down. Even if they have billions, although they have all the connections, and all the dirty tricks. This time, they will end up the one being crushed, and I would love to see all four eating the dust.

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