Sen. Risa Hontiveros
(Senate of the Philippines / FILE PHOTO / MANILA BULLETIN)
Hontiveros said President Duterte’s defense of the government’s response on the COVID-19 pandemic is not helping boost the people’s confidence as the increasing number of cases and deaths “speak for themselves.”
“Their photo ops, mere presence can’t substitute for that clear, coherent, empathetic and compassionate leadership. When you weigh his insistence that they were not remiss against the really sad and frightening numbers that keep climbing up, then we already know the truth, right? The evidence, the numbers of cases of the deaths speak for themselves,” Hontiveros said in an interview on The Source, CNN Philippines.