“GMA will go down in history as the beneficiary who betrayed the spirit of EDSA – ang traydor ng EDSA!” Sonia Roco, a Liberal Party-Aksyon Demokratiko senatorial candidate and widow of the late Senator and DepEd Secretary Raul Roco, minced fighting words when she spoke against the iniquities of the current administration on the eve of EDSA Dos anniversary.
“She leaves a legacy of a hungry and mis-educated electorate cynical and sceptical of their leaders. The spirit of EDSA is one that pursues the ideals of truth, justice, democracy and unity – all of which she has consciously stifled in her term. And for this, her term will go down as an insult and mockery to the ideals of the thousands of youth and masses who trooped to EDSA and lodged her into power.”
“Because of GMA, several people find little reason to celebrate EDSA Dos. But I beseech the people, especially the youth, to continue to live by the ideals of EDSA Dos even if its foremost beneficiary has not done so.”
Asked further if she had a personal message to the president who ran and won against her husband in the 2004 presidential elections, the educator who dubs herself Inang Guro shared these strong words:
“You have spent millions in lavish dinners abroad and have acquired more personal properties in your reign. Paano ka ba noon, bakit sobrang mas mayaman ka na ngayon?
A recent SWS survey revealed a despicable state of our people when we reached the 24 percent threshold of people who find themselves hungry under your term. Ganito tayo noon, bakit mas gutom na tayo ngayon?
You have become so inebriated with power that you cling to it at all cost, short of selling your soul to the devil. That is why, after the May elections, Pangulo ka noon, bakit Congresswoman ka na naman ngayon?”
“The last public pronouncements of my husband, the late Senator Roco, was a clamor for you to resign. Even if we reach the last day of your term this June, I will continue the same battlecry: GMA Resign! This is the right thing to do. And no amount of advertisements and bogus statistics will ever convince your people that they are better off because of your term.”
