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Monday, November 25, 2013

POLITICS | End of the road for Mar?

Photo from UNTV
Mar Roxas may have to kiss his presidential ambitions goodbye.

While the national government's assets were at Mar's disposal in Tacloban after typhoon Yolanda devastated the city, Tacloban Mayor Alfred Romualdez was left groping in the dark for help and so were his thousands of constituents.

Mar talked of clearing the airport, opening roads after the disaster but requests by the mayor on first and second day after the typhoon for military presence to quell lawlessness, relief goods for the survivors, body bags for cadavers, tents for the homeless, heavy equipment for the debris fell on deaf ears.

Why was the mayor without the means to address the problem? And why did Mar have them? Weren't LGUs the first responders? Why was there no national support for the local top executive?

Why did Pnoy have to mediate a meeting between Mar and Romualdez? Why was that necessary? Did Mar withhold vital resources needed to help Tacloban residents? If he did, it is downright wrong. And it is damning. It is also bringing the President down to the pits.


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