The imagination problem of the traditional opposition and the Marcos loyalists

I CANNOT say that I was the first, but certainly I was one of those who first offered as a possibility a strategic alliance between the traditional political opposition and the ruling coalition of President Ferdinand Marcos Jr., now soon to be one partner less effective July 19 when Vice President Sara Duterte's resignation takes effect.

This departure of Duterte from the Marcos Cabinet may be the end of the "UniTeam" as we know it, which Duterte practically admitted as a mere transactional alliance for the 2022 elections. But it doesn't mean the end of Marcos' invocation of "unity" as the ideological backbone of his administration.