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Cristina Romualdez apologizes for daughter's anti-Leni tweet


Newly-proclaimed Tacloban mayor Cristina Gonzales-Romualdez on Wednesday apologized for the foul language her teenage daughter used in criticizing Camarines Sur Rep. Leni Robredo, the administration's vice presidential bet.

In a post on her Facebook, Romualdez said she did not approve of the words her daughter Sofia used in the controversial Twitter post.

 

Romualdez said her daughter "is 16 so I believe she didn't realize what she was doing." 

In her tweet, Romualdez's daughter used foul language to question Robredo's qualification for the job as vice president: "P******* Leni bobo naman yan walang alam t******** nyo."

She later on apologized for her inflammatory tweet. "What I said about Leni was out of frustration and anger. I'm human and I make mistakes too, I'm sorry if I offended anyone," she tweeted.

Her Twitter account has since been deactivated.

Romualdez said she had a chance to meet Robredo during the wake of Robredo's husband, the late Interior Secretary Jessie Robredo, who died in a plane crash in August 2012. She said she knew Robredo did "not deserve such words."

Romualdez also asked the public to forgive her daughter and pray for each other to "love and forgive," adding her children have yet to get over their harrowing experiences during the onslaught of Typhoon Yolanda in late 2013.

"My kids went through a lot during the disaster and witnessed everything that happened," she said. "We all almost lost our lives so I have been always praying for my children to really get over that event in our lives."

Sofia's father, former Tacloban mayor Alfred Romualdez, is the cousin of Sen. Bongbong Marcos, Robredo's closest rival in the vice presidential race. As of posting time, Robredo was ahead of Marcos by a slim margin of more or less 230,000 votes.

Smelling irregularities in the counting, Marcos asked the Parish Pastoral Council for Responsible Voting to stop its partial and unofficial count. —Rie Takumi/KBK, GMA News

 

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