Staff at the Office of the Vice President cannot help but be emotional as their boss Leni Robredo bids them goodbye.
MANILA, Philippines – Heavy hang the air at the Quezon City Reception House on the day Leni Robredo left it for the last time as the 14th vice president of the Philippines.
But their faces would light up whenever Robredo passed them by. She was spending her last few hours at the OVP doing her final acts as an incumbent official – oath-takings for local politicians, one last meeting with the military men who kept her safe these past six years. , the sole candidate from her slate to clinch a Senate senate in the May polls.
Her flagship anti-poverty program “Angat Buhay” and her pandemic response relief drives have drawn widespread praise, even from politicians on the opposite side of the aisle. The Robredo-led OVP was quick, efficient, and responsive, even if the office’s annual budget was among the lowest in the bureaucracy.
The Duterte propaganda machine dedicated the past six years tarnishing Robredo’s name. Trolls and propagandists threw the most vicious lies against the Vice President and her children Aika, Tricia, and Jillian. The lies seeped into the Filipino psyche and heavily influenced the turnout of the 2022 polls. “Marami kasing kaming gustong gawin na hindi namin nagawa dahil ang daming limitation. Pero kung regrets, wala siguro. Kasi lahat ng difficult decisions na ginawa ay nag-turn out for the best.
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