'What is lacking is individual accountability. What we are seeing now is collective accountability which is equivalent to no accountability at all,' says former Cagayan de Oro mayor Oscar Moreno who once served as a House minority member.
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY, Philippines – Two former Mindanao congressmen on Wednesday, July 27, expressed apprehension over the prospects of the new minority in the House of Representatives performing their watchdog role.,” said former Cagayan de Oro mayor Oscar Moreno of the composition of the new House minority led by 4Ps Partylist Representative Marcelino Libanan.
“What is lacking is individual accountability. What we are seeing now is collective accountability which is equivalent to no accountability at all,” he said. But Pimentel, whose family suffered during the years of the Marcos dictatorship, has yet to find his rightful place in the country’s opposition owing to his six years as a member of the Senate majority during the Duterte administration. Pimentel’s father, the late former senator Aquilino “Nene” Pimentel Jr., was a political detainee and prominent opposition leader in Mindanao during the Marcos dictatorship.
“He was a member of the Senate majority during the previous administration. For six years, he held back because he followed protocols. Now, he can seize this moment, and he can shine,” he said.“It’s the soundness of their arguments that would matter. One can do that without being an obstructionist,” he said.
It was a crushing defeat for Bayan Muna, a loss it attributed to former president Rodrigo Duterte’s tirades against left-leaning groups, disinformation, and red-tagging, aggravated by Bayan Muna’s failure to campaign full blast due to COVID-19 restrictions.
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