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Team Unity said over the weekend that the disparaging
remarks made by Genuine Opposition senatorial candidate Sonia Roco
against persons with autism “is really what the GO candidates have
in their subconscious, a total disdain for the marginal and
physically-afflicted sectors.”
“There is nothing in the
GO candidates—in their advocacy and agenda—that is about the
marginal sectors or the dispossessed. To them politics is
about power, the quest for it for personal ends,” Team Unity
deputy spokesman Tonypet Albano said. “Sonia Roco was just being
truthful when she made her remarks on autistic persons,” he added.
Dang Uy Koe, president of
the autism society, has condemned Roco’s disparaging remarks.
Albano said that no amount
of apology could make up for the “spontaneous and legitimate
feeling of Mrs. Roco toward autistic people.”
He said the GO has anchored
its political agenda on seeking political power to “oust President
Arroyo, push the country into another round of political
destabilization and flame the fire of chaos.”
In this very narrow and
selfish context, Albano said, “There is no room for compassion and
concern toward the underprivileged.”
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