De Lima to public: Choose leaders who will defend PH vs Chinese incursions

Senator Leila de Lima on Monday urged Filipinos to help defend the country’s national sovereignty by valuing their right to suffrage and electing “worthy and pro-Filipino leaders” in the upcoming 2022 elections.

She said the Filipino electorate should not vote for leaders like Duterte who, upon assuming office in 2016, already decided that he will unequivocally side with his Beijing masters and has since refused to stand against unrelenting Chinese incursions in the West Philippine Sea (WPS).

“Recently, instead of de-escalating brewing tensions in international waters, Duterte’s Beijing friends sent more ships to our Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ), further robbing our fishermen of their livelihood, destroying our marine resources and negatively impacting our economy,” she said.

“Now, nobody expects Duterte to stand against this Chinese incursions in WPS because of his puppy-like love for Xi Jinping. He will ignore this issue or utter the same excuses he memorized in the past five years of his cowardice-filled rule,” De Lima said.

She said the future of the Philippines is now in the hands of the Filipino electorate: “To those who still haven’t, please register to vote now. Let us vote for our national sovereignty. Let us vote for our territorial integrity. Let us vote for the protection of our rights.”

“Iboto natin ang poprotekta sa kabuhayan ng mangingisdang Pilipino at dedepensa sa dangal ng Pilipinas,” De Lima added.

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