For sowing wind they are reaping a storm. This biblical metaphorical phrase finds an exact similarity with what President Marcos and House Speaker Romualdez are in a situation today. The consequences of their past actions have resulted in the repudiation from the people sending Marcos to grapple for solutions.
Unexpectedly Marcos wanted to reconcile with VP Sara Duterte who had just consolidated a formidable alliance with emerging political leaders in the country.
But the call for reconciliation is fraught with doubts and suspicion which can only be entertained if former President Rodrigo Duterte is brought back to the Philippines from his detention at the Hague following his illegal arrest.
Malacanang has not responded to that call knowing that what they did cannot simply be undone.
In confusion and acting perhaps in desperation President Marcos called for the resignation of Cabinet members, an act which shocked his own people and even his political adversaries. Instead of earning points however he reaped reactions that even demanded for his own resignation.
Marcos is in his last three years in office and he lost the opportunity to redeem his father, the late President Ferdinand E. Marcos Sr. and the Marcos family from the stigma of the past.
The results of the midterm elections say it all. Not only were his chosen Alyansa senatorial bets lost the silent and foreboding message is in the choice of the members of the Armed Forces of the Philippines and the Philippine National Police in the Local Absentee Voting who opted for all the PDP senatorial bets.
The next three years is not far but it can be shorter.
