What’s wrong with dinner?

IT’S propitious for the country when its top two leaders, while belonging to opposing parties, get to meet and break bread once in a while. There is much air to clear between President Rodrigo Duterte and Vice President Maria Leonor “Leni” Robredo, especially with all the silly impeachment talk of the past several days.

Mistrust has built up between the two sides over the past several months, and reached feverpitch late last year with Robredo’s unceremonious departure from the Duterte Cabinet over her vocal opposition to the burial of the late strongman Ferdinand Marcos at the Libingan ng mga Bayani (Heroes’ Cemetery) in Taguig.