AS THE HOUSE of Representatives (HOR) neatly carried on its task, in plenary session, of finalizing its decision to pass on to the Senate the Articles of Impeachment against VP Sara Duterte, majority of the senators, composed of known Duterte loyalists, took the opportunity to change the leadership structure.
Sen. Alan Peter Cayetano was installed outright as the new Senate President after kicking out Sen. Vicente Sotto. But this was carried out before the AWOL Sen. Bato dela Rosa, since November 2025, and shamelessly enjoying his monthly salary/allowances worth millions (funded by the people’s tax money) came rushing into the Senate hall. He explained that NBI agents were preventing him from entering the Senate premises.
But it was clear to all right-thinking Filipinos watching the drama on TV that Sen. Bato de la Rosa wanted to make sure he can protect and take care of his idol, ICC jailbird Rodrigo Roa Duterte’s daughter, VP Sara Duterte, by voting for a new Senate president (whose loyalty to the Duterte family is well-known) to head the Senate as an impeachment court.
QUOTING BIBLE VERSES
Sen. Alan Peter Cayetano, after taking his oath as the new Senate President, took pains to explain, quoting bible verses, probably to assure the Filipinos watching the proceedings he will be guided by Christ’s teaching on the Ten Commandments in his task of heading the Impeachment Court that will put on trial VP Sara Duterte, whether to convict or acquit her of the charges filed against her.
Meanwhile, with the majority of the senators smiling, having installed a new Senate President, they made sure their fugitive colleague, Sen. Bato de la Rosa, was safe from being arrested right there. He was immediately taken into custody, and was allowed to stay in the Senate premises overnight, protected from the NBI agents who were simply doing their job of apprehending him.
This task was based on a Warrant of Arrest from the Hague-based International Criminal Court (ICC), which was issued way back in November 2025. This explains why former Sen. Antonio Trillanes IV was on the scene with the NBI agents, as he was dared in the past by Sen. Bato to have him handcuffed were he to be arrested.
With the drama in the Senate hall, and a sober proceeding in the HOR, witnessed on TV by countless Filipinos concerned about how the legislators were doing their mandated jobs, many questions couldn’t be helped being raised in their minds.
DIDN’T CARE A DAMN
Why was the “coup” in the Senate caried out on the scheduled date of the plenary session of the HOR to decide on the validity of the decision made by the Committee on Justice?
What was really the intention of the majority of the senators in carrying out the sudden change of leadership? Why did they schedule it on that day?
Did they plan that Sen. Bato de la Rosa will suddenly appear, from his long hiding-vacation, to attend the session, and to vote in favor of the change of Senate leadership? Didn’t the Duterte-loyalist senators consider that the Filipino people will be suspicious about their scheduled coup on that day? Or, they simply didn’t care a damn about how their constituents will react?
Is it lawful for the senators to harbor a murderer-fugitive?
Were they confident the millions of DDS will support them in their current plans, firstly, in controlling the Impeachment Court in the trial of VP Sara Duterte, and looking forward, of controlling the government even beyond 2028? What other sinister plans do these Duterte-loyalist-senators have in mind?
The people demand TRUTH and JUSTICE to triumph!!