MANILA, Philippines -- Can you share the campaign stage with the son of your tormentor?

An anti-Marcos activist put her former colleagues at the House of Representatives on the spotlight over their plan to join the senatorial ticket that also includes Ilocos Norte Representative Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr.

Former Akbayan Representative Loreta Ann Rosales said on Sunday she could not imagine Bayan Muna Representative Satur Ocampo appearing in the same stage with Marcos during a campaign sortie. She described the possible alliance as a “bizarre arrangement.”

“Can you imagine that while Satur will talk about human rights violations during the Marcos dictatorship, Bongbong will deny that his father was a dictator and a human rights violator?” she said in phone interview with the Philippine Daily Inquirer.

“Let’s give dignity to the intelligence of the Filipino electorate.”

Ocampo, who was imprisoned and tortured during martial law, is set to run for the Senate under Senator Manuel Villar’s Nacionalista Party. Joining him is Gabriela Reprepresentative Liza Maza.

But Villar’s decision to tap Bongbong Marcos to join the senatorial slate has ostensibly put the two militant lawmakers—especially Ocampo—in a delicate position. Last Friday, Villar and Marcos formalized the tie-up between the former’s NP and the latter’s Kilusan Bagong Lipunan (KBL).

“Is this arrangement okay with them? A lot of people are already asking why they’re in the same ticket where Marcos is. It does put in question their position to run for Senate,” said Rosales, whose Akbayan party-list is in ideological conflict with Ocampo’s.

Rosales was also unsettled by the fate of the human rights compensation bill in case Villar won the presidency with the younger Marcos also securing a Senate seat under his banner.

Close to 10,000 victims of human rights violations under the Marcos dictatorship are supposed to get $200 million, but the bill covering the distribution remains pending at the 14th Congress.

“With an alliance forged between the KBL and the NP, where Rep. Marcos does not believe his late father committed violations of human rights, how can we expect the NP leadership now in alliance with the KBL—should it win the presidency—support the pending compensation bill and, for that matter, all legislation that will have to do with dispensing justice to the victims of gross violations of human rights, past and present?” Rosales asked in an open letter.

In the phone interview, she said Villar should “reconsider” forging an alliance with Marcos, warning that it would “tie his hands” on key issues involving the Marcoses in case he won the presidential race.

She said Marcos would surely lobby against the compensation bill if it would come to the point of Villar signing it.

In the letter, Rosales also raised the issue of NP’s getting a chunk of its campaign kitty from KBL and Marcos coffers, “much of which remains controversial.”

“How much of unsequestered Marcos money remains ill-gotten? How much is legitimate?” she asked.