By Junex Doronio
IT’S SHOWTIME, Senate 2025!
Former Senator Panfilo “Ping” Lacson — lower-half placer in the latest senatorial survey — dreaded the thought of seeing the upper chamber in 2025 being swarmed by mediocre lawmakers if not “clowns.”
Lacson tied for the sixth and tenth places with fellow Caviteño incumbent Senator Ramon “Bong” Revilla as both got 32% from the latest survey conducted by OCTA Research from September 30 to October 4, which revealed that 60% of adult Filipinos would vote for ACT-CIS party-list Rep. Erwin Tulfo if the May 2025 elections were held during the survey period.
“Inexplicably, the lyrics of an irrelevant old song comes to mind: But where are the clowns/Send in the clowns/Don’t bother, they’re here,” Lacson tweeted on October 18 on “X” formerly Twitter.
He lamented that Senators Sonny Angara, Nancy Binay, Koko Pimentel, Grace Poe, and Cynthia Villar, whom he considered “hardworking,” will finish their term by 2025.
With their exit and the prospect of new senators not at par with their caliber, Lacson said he could not be reminded of Stephen Sondheim’s classic hit “Send in the Clowns.”
Lacson who has packaged himself as an anti-corruption crusader, lost in the 2022 presidential race but noticeably did not concede to President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. who won a landslide.
(ai/mnm)