MANILA, Philippines — It had the anticipation of a major event: Three presidential candidates gathered in a hotel to make an explosive announcement as the election campaign headed toward the
But instead the Easter Sunday press conference led by Sen. Panfilo Lacson, Manila Mayor Francisco “Isko Moreno” Domagoso and former Defense Secretary Norberto Gonzales became an occasion for badmouthing Vice President Leni Robredo — or what analysts saw as their attempt to undermine the momentum of her campaign.
Then they criticized the shift among erstwhile supporters toward Robredo as a mere projection by her camp that she was gaining a wider following.But political scientist Aries Arugay of the University of the Philippines said he wondered why the two were still smarting from that development. To be sure, there were words of caution as well about Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr., with Lacson and Gonzales warning against his family’s return to power—given that the son and namesake of the late dictator remains the front-runner in the surveys.
In a statement following the press conference, Domagoso’s former supporters from the group IM Pilipinas said, “Unwittingly, with your rhetoric, you have become the greatest allies of Marcos in this elections [sic].” “But he did not use that … it was also an uneven attack, [because he] did not give equal attention to the flaws of BBM,” Arugay said, referring to Marcos Jr.’s initials.Domagoso’s supporters also chided him for “resorting to vindictive machismo” in his remarks against Robredo.
“In fact, the press con may actually backfire because it came out to me, as a woman, that these male candidates are fortifying the glass ceiling just so a woman candidate would not be able to break it,” she added.
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