In the feverish obsession over this year’s campaign season and elections, most Filipinos are unaware that something radical has been happening under the radar. This is the series of recently-passed laws and Supreme Court rulings that puts to right age-old assumptions and prejudices against children whose parentage is doubtful or unknown, or whose parents have chosen to abandon them or put them up for adoption. Society’s prejudice against persons whose birth circumstances were beyond their
House Majority Leader and Leyte Rep. Martin Romualdez, first cousin of Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. (BBM), who is set to be Speaker, has indicated that the first moves of the next Congress will be the following: To pass pandemic-related stimulus legislation. They know the title of this legislation, but have no inkling yet on its contents. The title? “BBM”—for “Bayan, Bangon Muli,” you understand. You can tell, Reader, this will be a brown-nosing Congress like the present one. To postpone the barangay elections scheduled for this December. In an ambush interview, Romualdez gave two reasons for postponement. One, the postponement was requested
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