Category Archives: Social Media

Leni Robredo determined to improve her trust and performance ratings

QUEZON CITY, Philippines (The Adobo Chronicles, Quezon City Bureau) – Vice President Leni Robredo was very surprised that she did very poorly in the latest Pulse Asia survey which asked Filipinos to rate national officials in terms of trust and performance.

While her nemesis, President Rodrigo Duterte scored a very high 91% on both trust and performance, Robredo scored a measly 50% on trust and 57% on performance.

Robredo said she expected to rate much much higher after she went on a rampage in the last several months, issuing public statements criticizing everything about the Duterte government and using Facebook Live to promote what she described as her recommendations to improve the government’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic.

“Apparently, we didn’t do enough,” Robredo said.

But she is determined to significantly improve her ratings, given that the 2022 presidential elections is just two years away.

The Adobo Chronicles asked her staff at the Office of the Vice President on what Robredo intends to do going forward.

OVP Spokesperson Barry Gutierrez said that in addition to her weekly radio show, and issuing press statements on a daily basis, Robredo intends to go on Facebook Live twice a day as a way keep herself and the OVP on the radar of all Filipinos.

Will the saturation work for Robredo?

Leni Robredo Reacts To Rodrigo Duterte’s Offer To Resign As President

 MANILA, Philippines (The Adobo Chronicles, Manila Bureau) – In his address to the Filipino nation last night, Rodrigo Duterte revealed that he had offered to resign as President of the Philippines because he was sick and tired of corruption.

Vice President Leni Robredo wasted no time and asked her spokesperson, Barry Gutierrez, to prepare her Presidential acceptance speech.

”Please immediately draft my address to the nation so we could go on Facebook Live as soon as possible,” she told Gutierrez.

However, Gutierrez informed Robredo that Duterte also announced that Facebook will be banned in the Philippines.

So what gives?

 

Locsin Is New Spokesperson, Roque Is Now Foreign Affairs Secretary

MANILA, Philippines (The Adobo Chronicles, Manila Bureau) – It’s a classic case of musical chairs.  Teddy Boy Locsin is the new Presidential Spokesperson, and Harry Roque is taking his place as Foreign Affairs Secretary.

The reshuffle was announced by President Rodrigo Duterte in what many believe is his strategy of dealing with infighting within his Cabinet.

It all started when Locsin tweeted that “The Philippines has only one President,” in reaction to an Inquirer news story on Duterte’s U.N. General Assembly speech where he mentioned that the arbitral ruling on the Philippines’ claim over the West Philippine Sea is now part of international law. In that news story, Roque was quoted as saying that the Philippines should now pursue a multilateral approach to the territorial dispute.

Sources close to Duterte told The Adobo Chronicles that as a good tatay (father), the President opted to deal with the brotherly conflict between Locsin and Roque in a neutral manner without siding with either Cabinet member.

Good move, Tatay Digong!