Given the country’s delicate history with elections, it is unacceptable when leaders engage in behaviours that whip up tensions and polarise the country.
The senator, a fierce critic of the administration of President Rodrigo Duterte, has been detained since February 24, 2017 over charges alleging her hand in the proliferation of drugs in the New Bilibid Prison when she was justice secretary.
As the petition to cancel the Certificate of Candidacy of now-presumptive president-elect Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. moves up to the Supreme Court, his team has called for those who sow “divisiveness” to just help them be productive every day.