Vice President Leni Robredo on Sunday, August 29, asked the national government to sign documents that will allow local government units (LGUs) to procure their own COVID-19 vaccines amid criticisms by some local executives over the lack of vaccine supply to their provinces. “Iyong pagdecentrali
The Office of the Vice President’s (OVP) Bayanihan E-Konsulta has noted a spike in COVID-19 cases as they are now handling an average of 400 cases per day, a 300 percent increase from a month ago, pushing Vice President Leni Robredo to take on the graveyard shift.
OVP Undersecretary Philip Dy (BI
Vice President Leni Robredo (Jansen Romero/Manila Bulletin)
“Kakaunti kami. Kung mag-aaway kami, ewan ko na lang. Okay kami, alam mo naman na after 2016 talagang halos na-decimate iyong Liberal (There’s very few of us. If we are going to fight, I just don’t know with us. We’re okay, you know after the 2016 elections, the Liberal got decimated),” she said on her weekly radio show with radioman Ely Saludar.
Aside from Robredo, only a handful of elected politicians stayed with the Liberal Party after the 2016 national polls.
The vice president said they understand that some of their members have jumped ship to the ruling political party, the Partido Demokratiko Pilipino-Lakas ng Bayan (PDP-Laban), so their constituents won’t suffer. Other members also joined other political parties.
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Vice President and opposition leader Leni Robredo called on her supporters to be inclusive of others to achieve true unity amid the polarizing politics of the past five years.
Vice President Leni Robredo (Jansen Romero/Manila Bulletin) During her weekly radio show with radioman Ely Saludar, Robr