MANILA, Philippines (Eagle News) — Senate Majority Leader Vicente Sotto III and other senators on Friday, November 4 chastised Senator Antonio Trillanes IV for his statement during a forum in the Senate on Thursday that some of his colleagues are apologists of President Rodrigo Duterte.
According to Sotto, the term apologist is “uncalled for and absurd. ”
“Yung term na ‘apologist’ is uncalled for dahil pwedeng a senator is also merely airing his opinion. Ang sabi nga, ‘to each his own,’ walang pakialamanan ng opinion,” Sotto said.
This statement also irked Senator Joseph Victor “JV’ Ejercito, a member of the majority bloc in the Senate.
“We all were given our respective mandates and therefore we are accountable to the people. It will be absurd to call senators as apologists,” Ejercito said.
“Senators should learn how to respect colleagues. That is parliamentary courtesy,” he added.
In an apparent reaction on the issue, Senator Panfilo “Ping” Lacson expressed his sentiments in his twitter post on Thursday night saying, “Bakit kailangang lahat kaming kasama nyang senador magalit din sa presidenteng ayaw nya at kapag hindi, walang kwenta lahat kami? Ano yun?”
Trillanes said that more that 10 senators were unhappy with the directions of the present administration.
