ANTONIO P. CONTRERAS IT IS amazing how disdain can turn into pity, yet that is what I now feel towards Leni Robredo. She is one whose public narrative is cast as a transcript of a widow of an esteemed political brand, a devoted mother and wife, imaged as one that inherits a name that is synonymous with good governance, to carry on the fight. She boldly took up a career in politics because of the death of her husband, and rose up the ranks in a short period from a neophyte legislator, to a reluctant candidate, to become a heartbeat away from being President. She projected an image very much like her husband’s. Her metaphors of “tsinelas” and “laylayan” were natural symbolisms that continued...
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