MANILA, Philippines (The Adobo Chronicles, Manila Bureau) – Congress has its hands full in proposing amendments to the 1987 Philippine Constitution, including a provision that a vote for the President will automatically be a vote for his or her Vice Presidential runningmate.
Another major proposed change is a significant revision of the qualifications to run for President.
Senate President Tito Sotto has put forward a proposed amendment that would add a “preferential” qualification for Filipinos wanting to run for President. Sotto’s amendment which critics say is self-serving, adds a new qualification that states, “Previous experience as a film/TV actor preferred.” Sotto is, of course, a film/TV personality.
Sotto’s proposal also adds another qualification that says a Presidential candidate “Must be proficient in the three R’s: reading, writing and ‘rithmetic,’ a move seen as a strategy to disqualify Vice President Leni Robredo from running for President in 2022.
A call by The Adobo Chronicles to the Office of the Vice President has remained unanswered as of press time.
(Many will recall Robredo’s previous math gaffe where she said 40 x 4 = 1,600.)
MARIKINA, CITY, Philippines (The Adobo Chronicles, Marikina Bureau) – A photo published in The Inquirer is making the rounds on social media because netizens were duped into thinking that the lady being vaccinated with Covid-19 vaccine at the Amang Rodriguez Memorial Medical Center in Marikina was Vice President Leni Robredo.
Netizens were also critical that the lady was being inoculated through her unrolled-up sleeve.
But a spokesperson for the hospital told The Adobo Chronicles that the what happened was merely a “symbolic vaccination” and the hospital staff vaccinated was just symbolic of the Vice President.
Robredo had previously said that she would be willing to be among the Filipinos to be vaccinated when the vaccines become available in the country.
It wasn’t clear whether or not she’d be willing to roll up her sleeves when that time comes.
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