LUCENA CITY \u2013 Reelectionist Senator Grace Poe shrugged off President\u00a0Duterte\u2019s opinion on the performance of every senator.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere is a difference in individual opinions. Either pro-administration or opposition bets. But who has the final judgment? It is the people who will eventually decide and pick (their<\/p>\n
candidates),\u201d Poe told the Inquirer in a solicited reaction during her solo campaign sorties here Thursday.<\/p>\n
In a mixed jest and seriousness, Poe appealed to the voters to give<\/p>\n
party-less and women candidates a chance in the coming election<\/p>\n
apparently referring to herself.<\/p>\n
\u201cSana lang, bigyan nila ng pagkakataon and mga independent kasi wala naman kaming makinarya. At saka mga kababaihan kasi mas maraming lalaki sa senado (I hope they would give a chance to the<\/p>\n
independent candidates because we do not have a machinery. And also<\/p>\n
women because there are more men than women in the Senate),\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Poe made the reaction after President Duterte said \u201ca lot\u201d of incumbent senators did not deserve their seats in the Senate.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn the Senate, there are a lot of those who should not be there,\u201d Duterte said during the campaign rally of the ruling PDP-Laban party in Marikina on Thursday.<\/p>\n
The President then called out a \u201csarcastic\u201d female senator whom, he<\/p>\n
said, had no brains and did nothing in the upper chamber. He did not<\/p>\n
identify the said senator.\/lzb<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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