What made Senator Panfilo Lacson finally give up his most coveted political dream – to be the country’s president - of all time? It is not because of a self-proclaimed and supposed lack of financial resources that is needed to support a nationwide political campaign but it is because of the lawmaker’s intrinsic and great instinct for survival. Senator Ping Lacson is well aware that his days of freedom are now numbered and that he could very well and possibly spend the rest of his life in jail as the return of former Police Superintendent Cezar Mancao to the country has virtually ticked the lawmaker’s clock and his survival is now more important than gaining the top post of the land.
However to survive a highly controversial criminal case, Senator Lacson deemed it necessary to forge a secret deal with one of the most prominent presidentiables for the 2010 national elections – Senator Mar Roxas. Being a member of a family known for its vast financial resources, Ping saw that a future “President Mar Roxas” is the only remaining ticket out of his current criminal debacle. A highly reliable source has revealed that the two senators deliberately colluded against Senator Manny Villar in exploiting to the hilt the C5 road controversy, a move that not only succeeded in making Mar Roxas’ surge in survey ranks but has also tarnished to a certain extent Villar’s well-kept uncorrupt image among the people. Have you not wondered why it was Lacson who first cried foul over the extension project but yet he is now allowing Senator Jamby Madrigal to have a field day of her own in the senate investigation? It was his pet exposé and being the good politician that he is, wouldn’t it have been more natural for him to want the limelight and the benefits of his “hard work” for himself? Why share the benefits?
This was all pre-planned. He will open the can of worms on Villar and he will let the other senators – except the Cayetano siblings and Nene Pimentel – to do all the nailing on the cross, thus providing him a fool-proof escape plan from being tagged as a black propagandist. In this manner, Roxas too would be given a chance to propagate his anti-corruption stance, something that would earn him extra “pogi” points among the masses.
Senator Ping Lacson only wants one thing. He no longer cares about the presidency nor even the vice presidency. All he wants is to survive the criminal charges that are now hounding his very own persona. And, this is the very reason why he is investing all that he has to have a future President Mar Roxas after the 2010 elections. He is willing to forego his own political dream and use his well-placed network to work for Mar’s victory. He is willing to “help” another presidentiable like Mr Palengke so that in future he can tap this “utang na loob” and ask for a reward in exchange for his dropout move in the presidential race and his secret efforts to serve Malacañang to Mar on a silver platter.
Saturday, July 4, 2009
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