“Such pronouncement is the height of hypocrisy,” Vic Rodriguez, legal spokesman of Marcos, said on Monday.
Rodriguez was referring to a statement Robredo read at a news conference earlier explaining her reason for quitting her post as chief of the Housing and Urban Development Coordinating Council (HUDCC).
“The vice presidency has indeed been stolen and it was stolen by no less than Mrs. Robredo herself and the political party she continuously supports,” Rodriguez added
“It was they who thwarted the will of the Filipino people by depriving them of their real choice for the vice presidency.”
Marcos lost the vice presidential race to Robredo but has filed a protest with the Presidential Electoral Tribunal (PET).
Robredo resigned from the Cabinet of President Rodrigo Duterte after he asked her, through presidential aide Christopher “Bong” Go to “desist” from attending Cabinet meetings starting Monday, “until further notice.”
In reaction, Rodriguez said: “Leni Robredo has just shown her true colors. Her departure from President Duterte’s Cabinet is long overdue given her very obvious adversarial attitude and opposite stance from his policies.”
“Long before the May 2016 elections, we were the first ones to reveal the Liberal Party’s ‘Plan B’ which was to rob Senator Marcos of the Vice-Presidency, install Mrs. Robredo in his stead and eventually work for the ouster of President Duterte. It is obvious that ‘Plan B’ is now in full swing.
“She has shown her true colors indeed.”
During the campaign period, Robredo and Roxas had denied several times that the LP had a ‘Plan B.’
