(3rd UPDATE) 'The TV ad is a pro-dictatorship and Marcos rehabilitation propaganda video packaged as advocacy,' says Kabataan Partylist
MANILA, Philippines – Filipinos tuned into primetime evening newscasts on Tuesday, January 9, saw a You do not have permission to view the full content of this post. Log in or register now. on the supposed “failures” of the 1987 Constitution to highlight the need for charter change.
“Pangako nila pagsulong pero sa pagbuo ng 1987 Constitution, na-Edsa-pwera tayo (They promised us progress but in forming the 1987 Constitution, we were left out),” the commercial’s narrator said,
in a word play on EDSA – a reference to the You do not have permission to view the full content of this post. Log in or register now. that toppled the dictator Ferdinand E. Marcos – and etsapuwera, the Filipino term for being excluded or cast aside.
The ad was aired amid questions about the integrity of a fresh charter change bid through people’s initiative. Albay 1st District Representative Edcel Lagman bared over the weekend an alleged plan to bribe voters to sign the petition calling for charter change, while similar campaigns were noted by Senator Imee Marcos and Davao City 1st District Representative Paolo Duterte, among others.
