Why am I not surprised? It turns out Gingoog Mayor Ruthie Guingona, the wife of opposition leader Tito Guingona, is supporting the administration coalition’s Team Unity.
She said she needed the administration’s support, and revealed that her husband was, well, okay with the arrangement. (In her words: “OK lang sa kanya.”)
Ah, yes. I’m afraid once a statesman’s inner traditional politician has successfully struggled to come out (as an Inquirer editorial once formulated the elder Guingona’s dilemma), there really is no going back.
In 2004, the opposition candidate in Bukidnon’s second congressional district, someone long allied with Joseph Estrada, found himself out in the cold, when Fernando Poe Jr. brought Guingona, a friend and mentor of his running mate Loren Legarda, into the opposition coalition. The price of that new “frigid temporary alliance of convenience” (to quote Guingona’s son’s own fulsome phrase): FPJ’s support for the younger Guingona’s candidacy for congressman in the same district.
So far, so traditional.
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One Feedback on "Frigid temporary alliances of convenience"
Elenio
I am a voter in Davao City and I want to share what I had seen anomalous acts during election day. Congressman Nograles Supporters gave a pack of rice, sardines and money even insurance card peope residing in Aplaya, Matina in order to vote KALAHI party list for his son.
I am fed up in this kind of acts because Media fail to present this on tv. They dont have the guts and I hope GMA 7 can investigate this acts and also the political dynasty in Davao. No one able to run against Duterte because to them its either the opponents will win or die. To all Davaoenous ITS TIME TO WAKE UP AND BE RESPONSIBLE COZ I NEED YUR SUPPORT THAT I WANT TO HAVE A REAL CHANGE IN DAVAO. Give others a chance to gvern honestly and peacefully and totally DRUG FREE CITY.
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