MATALAM, North Cotabato — The opposition, or Leni Robredo’s camp to be more specific, has been saying they lost in the 2022 elections due to “disinformation” / “misinformation” and the handiwork of the paid “trolls.” . When you point to these as the culprits while you were in fact the highest spender in social media and you have the mainstream media with you, you are admitting that your communications and public relations teams are weak, to say the least.
This election should serve as a wake-up call for the progressive Liberals in case they are still half asleep after the devastating loss of the “Otso Deretso” senatorial candidates during the midterm elections in 2019. They have to go back to the drawing board and reassess themselves and their strategies. For one, when you have a sitting President idolized by the “” it was a blunder to call them “bobotantes.” They will surely hit back at you with the force of 16 million.
This decisive election results should be a clarion call for the opposition to revisit their campaign strategies and rethink key assumptions to consider what liberal politics entails in Philippine setting. As it is now, liberalism and progressivism are in crisis in various parts of the world. It is now up to the opposition to save it from irrelevance if they still wish to build up on the said political ideology.
Dilly-dallying which worked for Duterte in 2016 did not work for Robredo because the precedents between the two were different. Duterte did not show interest in the presidency to avoid an early attack which happened to Binay. The opposition took advantage of Binay’s early disclosure to do demolition job against him which effectively crumbled him to pieces.
It was surprising, even confusing, to see Leni Robredo, who, as President of the Liberal Party did not run under its banner. This was seen as an attempt to veer away from the tarnished image of the yellow cult after the devastating defeat of the “Otso Deretso” in the 2019 midterm elections. She chose to be pink running as an Independent candidate. Even then, people still see Ms. Robredo as yellow disguised in pink. This was why she and her group earned the monicker “pinklawans.
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