Senator Leila de Lima wages poll battle from jail
WITH her hand raised high to greet the crowd, Senator Leila de Lima appeared on stage campaigning for re-election in upcoming polls. Only it wasn’t the opposition icon herself, but rather a life-size cutout image displayed by her allies on the campaign trail.
“I cried every day especially at night in the first few weeks, not really out of self-pity but for my family and out of disbelief,” de Lima told The Associated Press on Tuesday, March 15, in her first court-authorized jail interview since her arrest. “I was isolated. There was no one else but stray cats.”
She has filed more than 600 proposed Senate bills and resolutions from jail, many aimed at strengthening human rights and government accountability and easing poverty. One bill that was signed into law in 2019 calls for the regular funding of a program providing cash aid to the poor who enlist their children in health and educational campaigns.
She expressed fears that a Marcos presidency may undermine the rule of law and allow the family to block efforts to recover their suspected ill-gotten wealth and fully compensate the thousands of human rights victims under his father’s dictatorship. There’s also the danger of “historical revisionism,” she said.
According to official police records, more than 6,000 mostly poor suspects have been killed under Duterte’s crackdown, but human rights groups say the death toll is considerably higher. The International Criminal Court has begun an investigation into the killings in what an ICC prosecutor said could be a case of crimes against humanity.
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