STRANGELY, the spokesman of the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) is crying a river over the rejection of Mr. Perfecto Yasay’s appointment as foreign affairs secretary by the Commission on Appointments in Congress.

This official posture, if official it is, is misplaced and wrongheaded. We think that Mr. Charlie Jose, in speaking for the department, should express instead the DFA’s indignation over the rank deception that Mr. Yasay tried to pull and almost succeeded in inflicting on the nation’s foreign service – a spurious appointment to a highly sensitive post.

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