2022: Year of women?

(( It's early d ays the Solgen who did not personnel were caught red-handed
siill, but already, two give a hoot about the changing the codes which was
From political names are Constitution! followed by a sudden rain of over a
uirtualllt being bandied about as The Supreme Court million votes overnight for Leni while
notking, presidential candidates (SC) ruling on Poe's Marcos suddenly lost over a million
she put up in 2022 and both run for the presidency votes - just like that!
political figures
are in 2016 is not doctrine the way it loolis, the yellows are done
a regional
women: Sara Duterte, and therefore can be for politicalv ard it will talc decad€s, if ai
partv tha,t questioned again and, all, for the yelows' political rcsun€(tion.
current presidential
can prove daughter and head of a this time, there won't the lellorvs - with both Aquinos ai the
tobea regional political pafty, be a yellow Solicitor -
heln destrol€d the nation with their
grassroots and Leni Robredo, FROI{TLIT{E General and a yellow trypocritical yellow brand and the yellots'
partu current Vice President. Ninez CaChO-QlivareS Chief Justice to mle on coffupt artivities.
that could ' Another possible 2022 such issues, if it ever If Marcos JI is extra lucky, he
presidentiat candidate is yet another crops up again. may yet become the Yice president
easfu 'qioman Grace Poellarnaluaxes, eYen ln any case, this issue would hartlly of the Philippines if he wins his
make - protest against Leni. Howeyer, this
as she continues to claim that she is be reopened ifPoe does not run for the
aenatorg not interested in runrdng again for the top political post in 2022. But if she will all depend on how long a delay
and, eaen a presidency which race she entered does, and the s0 again says Poe can the Aquino appointed SC associate
presid.ential in 2016 but lost to President Roddgo run, she mayjust have a rerun of 2016, justice in charge ofthe protest wants
bet win Duterte. wha.t with Saxa Duterte - if she runs to delay the case.
their Poe may mean what she says for the top post, too - also running for If Leni is suDer
today about not running in the 2022 the same top post. Iucky, she may ((
electitse be yet become the The ueu
presidential race. The old case 0f her But who knows? There mayjust
aeats. having been a naturalized Americar yet another presidential contender - a next President of it look', the
citizen and her failure, being an male figue this time - in former Vice the Philippines, gellows
- are
adopted child, to prove her being a President Jojo Binay. He is, atthistime, and cause the done J'or
Filipino citizen by blood has hardly ruudng for a congessional seat which almost immediate ponficallV
been proved in the country's High may mean he is not ready to rethe resurrectiot of the ag1itr
Court, which allowed her to run from politics. yellows. However, will take
despite her indefinite citizenship And there is yel another male this can only happen 4""o6"", i7
status as her then lawyer, then political ligue who is likety to enter if President Durene at atL '
foi
Solicitor General norin Hilbay, now a l,he 2022 presidential race - Bongbong is
permanently ne uiilnws'
yellow senatorial candidate, claimed Marcos, who is bent on cont€sting the incapa-cit-ated. i" oitii"ol
that despite the ius sanguinis victory of Leni Robredo w}o is most imDeached. resiqns ----"-.
principle that the country follows, unlikely to seek the top polirical post, or dies. resurretru'n' ---
which determines citizenship by krowin! that she $,ould lose and lose But despite all the yellow talk
blood, any adopted child found in badly. about Duterte being termina[y ill
the country is a Filipino citizen, Leni also knows she doesn't have or had a kidney transplant, cancer
foltowing thejus soli principle y,ihich it in her to get the Yotes - enouglh or any other incurable illness, he
Arnerica follows in granting natural for herto become President.lhe talk will still be President untit 2022
born citizenship to G citizens. that's then is that she only won because However, Duterte may just resigir,
Hilbay for you - twisting what is of the Smartmatic fraud cornmitted should Bongbong win his protest
unconstituti6nal and getting away in 2016. It will be recalled ihat the before 2022, which would $ve hiin
yiith it. And to think he was then Smartmatic offrcer and a Comelec the edge - that is, if he doesn't run
against Sara Duterte, who has shown
how powerful and influential she ls
with politicians in and out of power.
It was she who had engineered
the fall of then Speaker Pantaleon
Alvarez with whom she was at odds
and the se of former President
/ ,flh
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo as Speaker
of the House of Representatives,
,-T. ,tDaily Irnagine Sara, a President's dawhter,
achieving that con$essional feat.

I IIDUne
WIHOIJ| FEAR. WIIHOUT FAV@
And even her father, the President,
has admitted that he really can't
control his daughter
Sara again proves her political
Wqgngqgay, 20 February 2019 influence in party and €lectoral pottics.
uarly lnbune ftom virtually nothi4, she put
up a regional party that can prove
to be a grassroots partJ that could
easily make senators and even a
presidential bet win their electiye
sears. And betler than her father,
Sara goes all out for her senatorial
bets and rounds them up in provinciirl
sorties, getting more and more
appearances and votes forher Senate
/ bets.
PA c!€ -Ll Presidential elections 2022 may
yet be the most interesting race
by far.
May the best (wo)man winl