An imploding candidacy

WHEN Manila Mayor Francisco Domagoso aka Isko Moreno led a group of presidential candidates in a press conference at the Manila Peninsula Hotel, there was some reason that could be discerned beyond the drama. What he, Sen. Panfilo Lacson and former national security adviser Norberto Gonzales did was to effectively call out the underhandedness of the campaign team of Vice President Maria Leonor Robredo or her supporters.

Beyond the filters of partisan noise, their message was to protect the integrity of the party system, and to respect the declared candidacies of everyone.