Leni Liberated

Vice President Leni Robredo has resigned from the Cabinet. Although, if you ask me, she had already stayed far too long before she finally left.

My own belief was that Robredo would stay on until she could weaponize her resignation politically, to “make a statement” out of it in the manner of the so-called Hyatt 10. She would, together with her colleagues in the Liberal Party, wait for the arrival of widespread disenchantment with the administration of President Rodrigo Duterte and then she would go, thus maximizing the propaganda mileage of her resignation.

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