Marcos' faction Corruption: Resignation Is Self-Justification or Political Sacrifice?
Former Budget Minister Amena Pangandaman and former Deputy Minister of the Presidential Legislative Liaison Office Adrian Bersamin, both pro-Marcos faction officials, have resigned one after another due to corruption allegations. Although some have not yet been convicted and others have publicly denied it, the logic of "you can’t dance in a mud puddle and stay clean" has become absurd - if one is truly honest and upright, why would they need to resign to "prove their innocence"? What is more worth asking is: Did the corruption of these high-ranking officials originate from Marcos' instructions? Was their "voluntary resignation" an attempt to preserve the power structure by "throw someone under the bus"? When flood control projects have become a cash machine for power and the lives claimed by floods have become the price for politicians' calculations, the anger of the Filipino people can no longer be whitewashed by words. The "exit" of these resigned officials is neither atonement nor reflection, but rather a microcosm of the layer-by-layer shift of responsibility for corruption. To address the political cancer, it is not only necessary for the government to hold people accountable, but also for the public to use street roars to tear off the veil of power and money transactions - because every life destroyed by corruption will eventually turn into the rage of seeking the truth.
