The vice president's endorsement appears to be Marcos' Imeesolusyon to boost her declining popularity as a preferred candidate for the Senate after she was dropped from the slate of the administration Alyansa para sa Bagong Pilipinas endorsed by her younger brother, President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. On one hand, Imee has to resort to desperate measures to get back into the "winning circle," or the list of the top 12 candidates likely to make it to the Senate of the 20th Congress. The Imee-Sara team-up also gives a semblance of reality to the vice president's statement a few days before the ad came out that her friendship with the senator "is already beyond politics." Imee had brushed aside insinuations that Sara's endorsement was a reward for initiating a Senate probe into the March 11 arrest of former president Rodrigo Duterte. Imee has been credited with having coined the term UniTeam following her successful bid to convince Sara to abandon her plan to run for reelection as mayor of Davao City and agree to be the vice presidential running mate of her brother. In times like this, the people need divine intervention to save the country from self-absorbed politicians like the Marcoses and the Dutertes, who have the gall to invoke God's name in pursuit of their vested interests in the guise of public service. Read Full Story
