MANILA – Presidential son and Ilocos Norte congressman Ferdinand Alexander “Sandro” Marcos said Vice President Sara Duterte-Carpio has crossed the line with her recent tirade against the Marcoses.
In a statement on Tuesday morning, Marcos said he tried to stay silent out of respect for Duterte-Carpio but he cannot kept quiet with the Vice President’s latest tirade against their family.
In a press conference, Duterte-Carpio shared that she told presidential sister Sen. Imee Marcos that she would dig up the body of their late father, former President Ferdinand Marcos Sr., and throw it in the West Philippine Sea if the attacks against her don’t stop.
The Vice President also said that she imagined cutting off the head of President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. after the latter humiliated a Philippine Military Academy graduate.
“For all this time, I have held my tongue out of respect for the Vice President given the mandate she was given and the responsibility which her office holds,” Sandro said.
“However, as a son, I cannot stay silent while she threatens to exhume a former president and behead an incumbent one,” he added. “Besides, her bizarre temper tantrum has been condemned by a nation horrified from such displays of insensitivity towards the dead and cruelty to the living.”
“Forget that the objects of her derisions are dear to me, but I would also be remiss in my responsibility as an Ilocano representative if I didn’t voice out my disdain at the abhorrent comments she so carelessly uttered,” he further said.
Sandro also stated that President Marcos himself had not said anything against Duterte-Carpio that can be remotely construed even as a mild rebuke against her tirades.
“He even advised me to withhold my disappointment and refrain from making a statement. However, one must draw the line at some point and it’s frankly long overdue,” Sandro said.
“Going ballistic was perhaps the self-therapy she prescribed for herself. But she crossed the line, leaving the civic and civil space in which disagreements can be rationally argued,” he added.
Meanwhile, Malacañang has refused to comment on the remarks made by Duterte-Carpio./PN
