By Ruth Abbey Gita-Carlos
MANILA – There is no need for an on-the-job training (OJT) for the senatorial slate of the administration-backed Alyansa Para sa Bagong Pilipinas because they already know how to craft laws, President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. said on Saturday.
Speaking at the Alyansa campaign rally at the Batangas Sports Coliseum in Batangas City, Marcos said his chosen senatorial candidates could help continue what his administration started.
“Karamihan sa kanila ay naging senador na kaya po wala na pong OJT ito. Tuluy-tuloy sa trabaho itong mga ito (Most of them have become senators, so there is no longer any OJT. They are ready for work),” Marcos said.
“Wala na po rito ‘yung masasabi mong bagito sa pagsusulat ng batas. Alam na po nila ang trabaho po nila (No one here could be called inexperienced in making laws. They already know their jobs).”
Marcos said the Alyansa candidates will ensure the continuation of what he has started toward giving Filipinos better lives.
He said the candidates would offer solutions even to “small problems that every Filipino citizen is facing” daily.
He also guaranteed equal treatment of all Filipinos, citing that party members would push for gender equality and women empowerment.
“Kung titiyakin po natin ang ating kinabukasan, kung ninanais po natin na maipagpatuloy ang lahat ng ating nasimulan sa nakaraang dalawang taon at kalahati, ito po ang dapat nating ihalal sa ating mga kandidato sa Senado (If we are to ensure our future, if we want to continue everything we have started in the past two and a half years, these are who we should elect to the Senate).”
The candidates under Alyansa are former Interior secretary Benhur Abalos; Makati City Mayor Abby Binay; incumbent Senators Ramon Revilla Jr., Pia Cayetano, Lito Lapid and Francis Tolentino; former senators Panfilo Lacson, Manny Pacquiao and Vicente Sotto III; and House lawmakers Erwin Tulfo and Camille Villar.
The Alyansa rally in Batangas province was the fifth and final leg of the party’s campaign sortie in Calabarzon or Region IV-A, which groups the provinces of Cavite, Laguna, Batangas, Rizal and Quezon. (PNA)
