Rep. Edcel Lagman
LIBERAL Party President and Albay First District Rep. Edcel Lagman said Vice President Sara Duterte may assume the leadership of the partisan opposition to the Marcos Jr. administration, but the Liberal Party (LP) remains the ideological and conscientious opposition to both the current administration and Duterte’s breakaway power bloc.
“The LP continues to uphold its iconic principles on good governance, participatory democracy, constitutionalism, human rights protection, and anti-authoritarian rule, all of which are not in the track record of the leaders of the now-defunct Uniteam,” he added.
On Wednesday, former presidential spokesperson Harry Roque said Duterte’s resignation spelled the end of the UniTeam alliance with President Ferdinand Marcos Jr., and claimed that she now leads the opposition.
“Uniteam has formally been dissolved and she has just become the leader of the opposition,” Roque said in a statement on Facebook.
He also said that with Duterte’s resignation as Education Secretary and vice chairperson of the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict, “the line has been drawn.”
“The Philippines finally has a real leader. Onwards to Transparency, Accountability, Peace and Security! Lets redeem the Philippines!” he said.
Marcos and Duterte ran as allies in the May 2022 elections against the tandem of Leni Robredo and Francis Pangilinan of the Liberal Party.
The Liberal Party opposition group is now led by Sen. Risa Hontiveros.
