Ito ang payo ni Pangulong Ferdinand Marcos Jr., sa mga senador matapos na hindi na naman dumalo sa sesyon ang Senate majority bloc dahilan para muling mabinbin ang mga panukalang batas at iba pang agenda na dapat na matalakay ng mga senador sa plenaryo.
Sa isang ambush interview matapos ang MEET AND GREET kasama ang BATANG MAYNILA PRESIDENTIAL SCHOLARS na isinagawa sa Rizal Memorial Sports Complex, Pablo Ocampo Sr. Street corner M. Adriatico Street, Malate, Lungsod ng Maynila, araw ng Miyerkules, ikinatwiran ng Pangulo na “Because it’s important — ang dami nating kailangang gawin.”
“I’m afraid all these events that we have been witnessing has thrown the Senate and its leadership, the whole Senate into disarray. It has discredited the leadership and it has stopped the essential business of legislation and government,” aniya pa rin.
Binigyang diin din ng Pangulo na ang dalawa pang sangay ng gobyerno gaya ng Ehekutibo at Hudikatura ay patuloy na ginagawa ang kanilang trabaho.
“Why does the Legislature decide to stop working? I don’t understand that. I talked to my fellow senators at the time I was senator, and we cannot figure out bakit nagkaganito. Paano tayo napunta rito?,” aniya pa rin.
“The best description I can have is that the legislature is now in disarray. But that is exactly the opposite from what we are trying to achieve. We are trying to achieve some form of stability so that people can get on with their lives, so that people can plan ahead for their future, so that people can count on the assistance of government during this time of an emergency. We cannot do that if the legislature decides to stay at home and have a vacation. That is anathema to everything that governance is about,” ang litaniya ng Pangulo.
Ayon sa Pangulo, hindi aniya niya maisip sa kanyang buong buhay, sa kanyang buong political life na mangyayari ang nangyayari ngayon sa Senado.
“It’s not longer august now,” ayon pa rin sa Pangulo sabay sabing, “it’s a very, very sad situation to have to watch. The country is in need of assistance. People are in need of assistance. How can we provide that assistance without the proper legislation to back it up? that is my problem here looking at it from the side of the executive.”
At sa tanong naman kung ano ang kanyang balak gawin bilang Pangulo ng bansa sa patuloy na hindi pagkakaunawaan ng mga senador, ang naging tugon ng Pangulo ay “Well, we’e examining all our options. We’re looking at the law, we’re looking at the constitution and to see how we can remedy the situation. But it requires the cooperation and the commitment of the senate leadership to continue with their work otherwise the executive is co equal only to the legislature. we cannot tell them what to do, we cannot punush them for what they are doing. They have to regulate themselves. And they havent been doing much of a good job right now.” KRIS JOSE
