ACT-Teachers Partylist Representative France Castro has taken a break from her usual role as the guardian of education to lecture Vice President Sara Duterte on the delicate dance of separation of powers. 

Castro, ever the champion of paradox, lambasts Duterte for allegedly interfering in the House of Representatives while conveniently overlooking the fact that Congress itself has pirouetted into an unwitting accomplice in the International Criminal Court’s grand ball of justice.

It’s a spectacle of hypocrisy as Castro scorns the VP for purportedly meddling in legislative affairs while Congress, with a collective shrug, hands over the keys to the ICC’s investigation into the Philippines’ war on drugs. 

Perhaps in the twisted logic of the political circus, allowing an international body to waltz into the country’s judicial affairs is not interference but a well-choreographed performance of sovereignty. 

Bravo, Congress, for your dazzling display of contorted principles and legislative somersaults.