Casiño says PH needs ‘tamang landas’

Bayan Muna Partylist Representative Teddy Casino. INQUIRER FILE PHOTO

MANILA, Philippines — There was President Aquino’s “matuwid na daan” (straight path), then United Nationalist Alliance’s “daang maganda” (beautiful path), but now there’s “tamang landas” (right path).

Bayan Muna Partylist Representative Teddy Casino on Wednesday said that what the country needed was neither of the two powerful coalition’s debates on the “matuwid na daan” versus the “daang maganda” but his “tamang landas”.

He said that reforms were what Filipinos needed, asking “aanhin ang maganda o tuwid na daan kung mali naman ang direksyon? (Of what use is a beautiful or straight path if it leads to the wrong direction?)”

“Ang importante ay tama ang landas kahit pa ito’y lubak-lubak o paliko-liko (What is important is the right path even if this is full of potholes and has many turns),” he said.

The Liberal Party and the UNA has been bickering on which coalition had the best platform for the country, was it the President’s straight path or the Vice President’s beautiful road?

Casino said that he would work on the much-needed reforms for agriculture and local industries, and lower the prices of basic services.