[Newspoint] The Tañada legacy

Truth manipulators might advance the argument that dynastic politics is not all bad, but the Tañadas have consistently stood opposite the likes of the Estradas, Macapagal-Arroyos, Dutertes, and Marcoses

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The Tañadas are definitely no Estradas, no Macapagal-Arroyos, no Dutertes, and no Marcoses. In fact, they have consistently stood opposite the likes of them. Indeed, a comparison with any of them is odious. When Marcos was finally booted out of power and driven with his family to foreign exile in 1986, and democratic governance was subsequently restored to the nation, Bobby followed in his father’s footsteps to the Senate. In 1991 he won for his father a signal victory in his lifelong fight for national sovereignty: the Senate voted for the removal of all American military bases in the Philippines, a colonialist embarrassment for nearly a century.

Bobby, 57 then, picked up where Ka Tanny left off. In 2019, a compilation of his speeches and other public utterances was published by the Center for People Empowerment and Governance. It constitutes the Tañada credo and centers on four causes: national sovereignty, people’s rights, social justice, and “an economic paradigm that puts our country’s interests and our people’s well-being above all else.

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