What made Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. believe that the Filipino voters accepted and embraced his campaign slogan of unity, healing, etc. such that they voted for him for vice president in the last elections? And he must really have such a fertile imagination to even think that the Liberal Party or specifically, Leni Robredo, cheated him while he was in sweet slumber after garnering a sizable lead in the early hours ofthe count.
Why is Bongbong so quick to allege cheating? Is it because the memory of computer operators walking out of the Philippine International Convention Center from the canvassing of votes in the 1986 snap presidential election—after they realized that they were being made to encode erroneous data to favor his father—is still fresh in his mind? Or is it simply because the culture of cheating is so ingrained in his mind?
Bongbong should realize by now that this is the age of high technology; that the computer system cannot be easily manipulated because there are always built-in safeguards installed in the system itself; that the people can’t be fooled anymore by mere antics.
He should stay calm, just like Leni Robredo during her press conference. He should be true to and consistent with his campaign slogan. What Plan B is he talking about?
—RENATO JOSE R. RAMIREZ, ren_ram39@yahoo.com.ph