Palace press official refuses to resign

MANILA, Philippines — Presidential Communications Undersecretary Lorraine Badoy on Wednesday dismissed the call of the House of Representatives Makabayan bloc for her to resign from her post, saying she should not be the one to leave office because she had never deceived Filipinos.

Badoy made that statement in a Facebook post in reaction to the House opposition bloc who had earlier asked her to resign for Red-tagging them without basis.

“As for the Makabayan bloc reps calling for my resignation, I’d be sorely disappointed in myself and see it as inadequacy in doing my job if they didn’t ask for anything less,” Badoy said in her post.

Holier than thou

“Also, I’m not the one who has to resign because I have not deceived the Filipino people nor have I done anything to hurt them. I come to the table with clean hands and as pure a heart as I can muster,” she said.

The Makabayan bloc—represented in the House by party list lawmakers of ACT Teachers, Bayan Muna, Gabriela, and Kabataan—called for the official’s resignation after the House committee on appropriations hearing on the proposed 2021 budget of the Presidential Communications Operations Office (PCOO).

Badoy is a PCOO undersecretary and the spokesperson of the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict.

Over the weekend, Badoy asked Makabayan bloc lawmakers to drop their “legislator” title and admit to being ranking members of the Communist Party of the Philippines and its armed wing, the New People’s Army, without offering evidence.