ANTONIO P. CONTRERAS

UNDOUBTEDLY, the Luneta rally by the pro-Duterte forces emerged as the more powerful narrative, both in terms of images, and of numbers. This, when compared to the one launched by the anti-Duterte forces held at the People Power Monument in EDSA. While still possessing a strong symbolic power for those who hold the memory of the February 1986 uprising close to their hearts, even to the point of continuing to remember it as a revolution, the EDSA gathering has in fact been reduced to a disappointing spectacle.

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