EP 41: Pacquiao, Pimentel unseated in worsening row in Duterte’s party

Over the weekend, the ruling PDP-Laban unseated two of its top officials — Senator Manny Pacquiao as party president and Senator “Koko” Aquilino Pimentel III as executive vice chairman. 

Pacquiao’s faction did not recognize the election of new officials insisting that Energy Secretary Alfonso Cusi and two other PDP-Laban officials were still expelled.

But as far as party dynamics were concerned, President Duterte’s presence in the part assembly last Saturday pretty much settled who was calling the shots. 

For good measure, duterte insulted both Pacquiao and Pimentel, whose father, Nene founded the party.

Pimentel’s group is understandably dismayed especially at the prospect of losing a party they all built from the ground up but only to be allegedly hijacked by selfish or even sinister political interests.

But didn’t they see this coming?  Didn’t they help breed this ‘monster’ within the party that is now devouring them?