Gloria Mercado, the career bureaucrat spelling trouble for Sara Duterte
Gloria Mercado, the career bureaucrat spelling trouble for Sara Duterte
September 28, 2024
By Dwight De Leon
RAPPLER
The House of Representatives has found its first whistleblower against Sara Duterte, and her name is Gloria Jumamil Mercado.
She is no ordinary informant presented by the House, and the allegations made by Mercado against the Duterte-led Department of Education (DepEd) — from a deputy supposedly trying to rig bidding procedures, to the Vice President herself showering her subordinates with wads of cash — spell trouble for the country’s second highest official.
In a counter-offensive, Sara Duterte has, however, relentlessly accused her enemies in Congress of plotting her impeachment.
Duterte and her most loyal supporters have also worked double time to challenge the credibility of Mercado, but the latter’s exposé — however accurate or not — opens the floodgates to a deeper investigation into the irregularities in the agency which the Vice President no longer has control over.
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