By Rodolfo Dacleson II
(May 23, 2025) – Executive Secretary Lucas Bersamin on Friday hit back on his predecessor Atty. Vic Rodriguez after he criticized Pres. Ferdinand Marcos, Jr. for calling for courtesy resignation within the Cabinet.
He stressed Rodriguez “talks too much.”
“Alam mo si Vic Rodriguez, daldal nang daldal ‘yan,” said Bersamin during a media conference. “Why was he taken out of the office? Wala pa siyang tatlong buwan.”
On Thursday, Rodriguez on Facebook Live dismissed the mass resignation as merely a “cosmetic change,” claiming that Marcos’ leadership is the problem itself.
Bersamin also likened him to a “barking dog at night,” saying he chose to ignore his tirades.
“Kantyaw nang kantyaw. That’s when you see, in the middle of night, a dog barking in the fence. If you want to get up, you get up and throw a stone at that dog. But we will not do that to him. ‘Wag na natin pansinin,” he added.
Rodriguez served as executive secretary of Marcos from June to September 2022. He reportedly resigned due to the position’s demanding nature and wanted to spend more time with his family.
To recall, he served as election lawyer and campaign spokesperson of Marcos in his presidential campaign in the 2022 polls.
Since his resignation, Rodriguez has increasingly become critical of the current administration.
Last January, he and seven petitioners urged the Supreme Court to declare the 2025 General Appropriations Act (GAA) unconstitutional due to blank items in the bicameral conference committee report, which served as its basis.
Marcos claimed that the case only aimed to “destabilize” the government. He signed into law the 2025 GAA to allocate a national budget worth P6.326 trillion.
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Recently, Rodriguez lost in the senatorial race in the 2025 midterm elections under the endorsement of Partido Demokratiko Pilipino-Lakas ng Bayan, headed by former president Rodrigo Duterte.
The Marcoses and Dutertes have been quarreling since the UniTeam got splintered, which worsened after the International Criminal Court arrested Duterte in March.
(JREC)
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