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PDP-Laban slate calls themselves ‘Team Suka’
By J.Lo
“Go ahead, call us Team Suka, what matters is we’re ones making life more flavorful for the poor, ” Sen. Ronald Dela Rosa said President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. did not name names when he mocked candidates who appeared merely “sent to buy vinegar” at the launch of his endorsed candidates earlier this week.
But former President Rodrigo Duterte’s allies readily claimed insult as being directed at them.
Vic Rodriguez, served as Marcos’s campaign spokesperson before their public falling out in 2022, also criticized his former superior. “We’ll fight Team Sinusuka… vinegar fights fake gold, I have diploma and finished college, ” he said, adding with deliberate emphasis.
Marcoleta, meanwhile, turned vinegar metaphor into indictment of administration: “We know why basic goods are so expensive in our country. Those who don’t use vinegar, they don’t understand. We can smell corruption, we just smell like vinegar. But they don’t even notice it, because many of them are involved.”
Slate’s responses to Marcos also went beyond vinegar taunt. When the president suggested some candidates had blood on their hands from drug war, Dela Rosa also bristled.
“If our hands are stained with blood, I’m not ashamed… blood of criminals.” The former police chief even suggested, to approving cheers, that perhaps tokhang ,controversial door-to-door drug war campaign should be their electoral strategy.
Throughout speeches, candidates’ pointed jabs at the president drew scattered cries of “Bangag!” from the crowd.
Elder Duterte, presence loomed large through countless posters and merchandise bearing his image, delivered day’s final salvos.
He repeated allegations about Marcos’s supposed abuse of illegal substances and briefly dismissed criticism of his administration’s bloody drug war with characteristic bluntness: “Why call them extrajudicial killings…there was nothing extra about them,” the former president said.
PDP-Laban’s proclamation rally on Thursday saw its candidates staking their Senate bid on nostalgia for Duterte years to overcome both fresh controversies that have hounded vice president and dwindling number of politicians who still stand behind Duterte alliance.
The party that once commanded government’s full machinery now operates from different position after series of party exits in the last two years. Dela Rosa, aware of this reality, made thinly-veiled remark:
“Where is the opposition…you are still here…you did not jump to the other side…you are not disowning us… those are the people who have principles,” Dela Rosa said.
Go crystallized party’s campaign message in his closing remarks: “The more allies we have in Senate, the more we can help not just Duterte but the entire nation. Please, help our slate’s candidates.”
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