Vice President Jejomar Binay INQUIRER FILE PHOTO
MANILA, Philippines— Just two days before voters finally make their decision on who they want to take on 12 of the vacant seats in the Senate, opposition leaders took a swipe at administration slate’s 12-0 pronouncement.
“They say no one from UNA will win, that is alarming,” said Vice President Jejomar Binay in his speech during the United Nationalist Alliance’s (UNA) miting de avance in Moriones, Tondo.
“Let us be vigilant. Let us watch (the elections) closely,” he urged voters.
Binay said opposition candidates should get seats in the Senate in order to serve as fiscalizers.
“In a true spirit of democracy there must always be fiscalizers,” he said, explaining that the opposition will check on the administration’s work.
Team PNoy has earlier expressed its intention to gain a full slate victory this midterm elections, a declaration which drew criticism from the rival coalition which said it feared that the elections could be rigged.
Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile said that a 12-0 sweep by Team PNoy would mean that the Senate would no longer be independent.
He questioned what the present administration has so far done in three years and said “the result of those three years, many are still poor, many still starve.”
“With a 12-0 (sweep) they would be able to control the Senate. The Senate should be independent,” he said.
“We should not allow them to silence the Senate,” Enrile added.