TUCP executive director Luis Corral said his group believes all sectors of society will rally behind Aquino if he addresses the “real issues” of unemployment, power crisis, impending water crisis, and “public transport breakdown.”
“It is the President who has a mandate. He has only to convene all groups so that they–and not the proxy poor, the proxy peasant and the proxy marginalized–can speak for themselves,” he said.
He said the leftist groups “and their outworn ideological prescriptions are now outwearing the welcome and tolerance of those who simply want investments that create decent jobs.”
“In the same vein there are those presuming to speak for the basic social sectors in advancing a narrative of succession in 2015,” Corral said.
Corral said the TUCP is appealing to Aquino not to be distracted.
“The divergence of political and economic goals heard from the left, the right and all points in between in the last few days shows that there are a mixed bag of opportunists, pretenders, and political engineers who are on the one hand trying to lead the country from behind and on the other hand, perennial ideological nitpickers trying to derail the political and economic gains of the last four years,” he said.
TUCP spokesperson Alan Tanjusay said a national summit on jobs and consumer issues will catalyze the silent majority who placed their trust in an Aquino presidency.
He said “assigning blame and politicking” are not what the silent majority is concerned about.
Corral said consultations on power ordered by the President in his state of the nation address last July have not brought ordinary consumers and workers on board.
“It appears to be a discourse of various Makati interest groups, who are elbowing each other out to promote their preferred gas turbines, power barges or interruptible load programs (ILP). It is again, and wrongly so, about how much will one group earns and what kind of price Juan dela Cruz will end up paying for both as taxpayer and consumer,” said Corral. - Malaya
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