PH Embassy in DC responds to PCFR statement

(The following was received in an email from the Embassy of the Philippines in Washington DC to the Philippine Council on Foreign Relations about the “PCFR’s statement on the campaigning of the Philippine Ambassador to the US for administration candidates.”)

FOREIGN Service Officers have always understood their role as representatives of the Philippine Government that are above and outside partisan politics. The question of who should be in power and run the government is not for us to answer. What is required of us, however, is a commitment to promote and defend democratic values, which include the citizens’ right of suffrage.