Marcos Knows his Presidency Imperils If Speaker did not Resign

 By Mortz C. Ortigoza, MPA

I am watching at YouTube the ANC interview of Deputy Speaker Ronnie Puno by ABS-CBN Karen Davila. Puno defended the culpability of former Speaker Martin Romualdez (who just resigned in favor of his Deputy Speaker Faustino "Bojie" Dy). Puno said that in the last few days colleagues in Congress persuaded Romualdez to just file a leave of absence which the Speaker first heeded. But had a change of mind last Saturday when he met his cousin President Ferdinand Marcos in Malacanang.

President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. and Speaker Martin Romualdez grace the 2022 Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) Multistakeholder Forum at the Diamond Hotel in Manila.

Puno still defended Romualdez to be blameless who just absorbed the wrath of the Filipinos because of the monumental corruption in the House. Puno said the former Speaker did not want to tangle with Senate President Chiz Escudero and later Senate President Tito Sotto.

He just rolled with the aspersions and vilifications from our countrymen.

Karen cited the ostentatious displays of wealth by the congressmen and their families, the ghost projects, and the billions of pesos’ jets and houses of Romualdez and Ako Bicol Partylist Cong. Elizaldy "Zaldy" Salcedo -- Romualdez's Man Friday -- while the Filipinos have been drowning in the flood because of the anomalies perpetrated by government officials on the hundreds of billions of pesos defective and imaginary flood control projects appropriated by the knaves and scoundrels in Congress.

FOR ME it was just logical for Romualdez to resign as the top boss of the House of Thieves because he became the powder keg that Bongbong Marcos could emulate the fate of his Dictator and corrupt father Ferdinand, Jr. and family members who were driven out in the country in 1986.

Amid the violent and deadly nationwide demonstrations against corruption and avarice by the Generation Z and Millennials against politicians in Indonesia and Nepal. the President, for me, was apprehensive that he would be courting to be ousted from office through force incase his corrupt cousin continues to sandbag in Congress.