Marlen V. Ronquillo
Marlen V. Ronquillo

Senator Miriam Defensor-Santiago knows precisely when to thrust her dagger into the heart of decadence. It takes one with a sense of political and cultural theater to have this perfect timing , and , clearly , Senator Santiago has this in a superb way. As July 22’s SONA morphed into a cheap version of the Oscars, the senator decried the “ bling” that have possessed and obsessed legislators—and robbed the somber tradition out of the president’s state of the nation address.

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