The Filipino people from all nooks of the globe were awakened to a midnight rant of a brat whose family ruled a city and this country. The threats were ignited by the reality threat that she will lose her ambition of following her father’s high office as the country’s chief executive and commander-in-chief. It began with the breakup of the unity team that catapulted the magical president back into the palace by the river. The magical president had kept the political line for his family who are not keen on easily giving up the profitable seats of power. The long line of successors is waiting for their turn at the right time to be in their desired office simultaneously or alternatively.
That could have been the same setup that the dislodged ranting brat could have made had they remained in power. The fundamental law prohibits reelection for the president and so the successors had no choice but to seek the second highest post considering the seemingly unpreparedness to seek the presidency. It took the intervention of a queenmaker to setup the tandem, including the electoral system that could ensure their victory. Indeed, the outcome was as predicted, the counting machines spewing numbers ahead of the precinct count.
The ranting brat had in the beginning the good graces of the magical president, allowing her to take her choice cabinet seat and getting all the support she needed. The cabinet seat afforded her to introduce needed reforms that would improve the country’s educational system and be at par with other countries in the world. All programs were running well until she verged into promoting her hidden ambition in the guise of authoring a children’s book that only parents could have beneficial use while explaining the stories to their children. These parents are voters who are potential supporters to ensure the success of her presidential ambition.
Such ploy merited the probe of congressional investigation as a huge budget was allocated for its printing. The children’s book had the prominent name and photo of the ranting brat, deemed as an act of political move towards attaining her political ambition. Yet, she had the temerity to tell the congressional probers not to politicize her project for it is aimed to improve the early education of children.
Unfortunately, the investigators took the project as too costly and the book as too raw as it did not pass through the standard review by experts in the field. Eventually, the investigators moved to reduce the huge budget for education but loyal supporters of the ranting brat argued that the budget must be approved without scrutiny as a matter of practice and a show of respect to the office.
The probe led to other discoveries, chiefly the use of confidential funds that was found anomalous. Evading the hearings, she kept on sending representatives of her office even without invitation and authority. When her staff were brought into spilling the details of the anomalous use of confidential funds, she interfered by opting to stay in detention with her staff, a fellow lawyer who was found lying. Confronted with imprisonment after being cited for contempt by the quad committee of the house of representatives and four impeachment complaints, she now is in tandem with her father to stand as their own lawyers. Indeed, an arrogant display for their family’s vice.
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