Binay spokesman twits Lacierda: 'Walang forever'

The war of words between the spokesmen of President Benigno Aquino III and Vice President Jejomar Binay continued over the weekend with the Binay camp telling the Palace representative “walang forever.”

 

Joey Salgado, the head of Binay's media affairs, lambasted Lacierda over the supposed plan of the ruling Liberal Party (LP) to rule for 20 years under a one-party dictatorship.

 

“The Filipino people do not want six more years of an uncaring haciendero leadership. They surely do not want 20 years of inept and uncaring government. The Secretary and his Liberal Party patrons should realize one thing: walang forever,” he said.

 

Salgado issued a lengthy statement in reaction to a Facebook post by Lacierda, where he fired back at the Binay camp for insinuating that the Aquino government wants a dictatorship.

 

Salgado said the Filipino people no longer wants a government that is “manhid and palpak,” a phrase often used by Vice President Binay, the presumed standard bearer of opposition party United Nationalist Alliance (UNA), to describe the Aquino administration. 

 

“What the people do not want are candidates of the elite who treat the nation as their hacienda: where serfs produce the wealth but receive only crumbs and are expected to be eternally grateful to their master; where the haciendero through his encargado enforce his will with the whip,” he said. 

 

Binay's spokesman further accused the LP of using government agencies to harass its political enemies to stay in power.

 

Binay and his son, Makati Mayor Junjun Binay, are facing plunder and graft charges over their alleged involvement in the supposedly overpriced construction of government buildings in Makati, an accusation being probed by the Senate Blue Ribbon subcommittee. 

 

Salgado said public Senate hearings are conducted against Binay to “publish every false, perjurious, baseless, defamatory and hearsay statement against the Vice President.”

 

He said while witnesses against Binay like former Vice Mayor Ernesto Mercado were allowed to speak lengthy statements, those attesting to Binay's innoncence were maligned and threatened.

 

Salgado also scored Lacierda for using the EDSA Revolution to supposedly justify the LP's “sinister agenda.”

 

“Indeed, there are those in the administration who claim EDSA 1986 as their birthright, including their anointed one,” he said.

 

“The truth is that these personalities who now hijack EDSA 1986 were nowhere near the picket lines and barricades during the dictatorship. They were partying in New York or wherever it is rich haciendero families party in the United States during martial law,” Salgado added. 

 

Last week, Salgado and Lacierda traded barbs using gay lingo over the Vice President's so-called True State of the Nation Address. —ALG, GMA News