LP camp scored for using gov’t vehicles in campaign

By ARMANDO B. FENEQUITO JR.
The camp of Partidong Demokratikong Pilipipino-Lakas ng Bayan (PDP-Laban) presidential bet Davao City Mayor Rodrigo R. Duterte scored Liberal Party (LP) standard bearer Mar Roxas and his running mate Rep. Leni Robredo for allegedly using government vehicles in putting up campaign posters.
This after receiving reports that supporters of the administration front runners have been using government vehicles in its postering operations.
In a statement, PDP-Laban spokesperson lawyer Paola Alvarez said the use of red-plated vehicles by supporters of Roxas and Robredo “exposes the true nature of the administration and the kind of governance behind their slogan ‘Daang Matuwid.’”
“Daang Matuwid is but a platform of deceit that has been conditioning the minds of Filipinos that this administration has been clean and efficient, when in reality it is corrupt and worse than the past administrations it claims to admonish,” Alvarez said.
“It is not only a sham, at most it is shameless and loathsome,” she added.
Alvarez was referring to a photo circulated online last week showing a mini-dump truck loaded with yellow campaign posters in Zamboanga Sibugay.
Another photo showed a black Toyota Hilux — with plate number SDK 417 — also loaded with campaign material bearing the word Roxas under the administration slogan Daang Matuwid.
Alvarez said the administration is “obviously at the height of desperation as its candidates continue to lag behind in the survey.”
“This is proof of what desperation is. This administration is willing to do everything to the extent of devouring our national resources just so it can push its cards on the table,” she said.
For his part, Duterte’s spokesperson Peter Laviña reminded Filipinos of how Roxas has been “dangling government programs such as the Bottom-Up Budgetting and 4Ps” in his sorties.
“Government resources are now officially the campaign kitty of the bets of the administration,” he said.