Netizens questioned how Senator Leila De Lima who allegedly involved in protecting the drug trade received an award from a popular international political magazine in Washing D.C on Monday.
Thousands of Netizens criticized by the decision of the Foreign Policy for including the Senator into 100 Foreign Policy Global Thinkers. She would be honored as a global thinking for standing up to an ‘extremist leader’.
De Lima’s supporters congratulated her for winning an award for standing up against President Duterte, but most of the Netizens still don’t know how De Lima got the award.
Sasot, believed that the award that Senator De Lima received was part of the PR strategy that she personally hired so the people would believe that she was ‘politically persecuted’ by the Duterte administration.
Jay Chris Gabe questioned how De Lima who allegedly protected drug lords would be honored by an international organization.
Jonavel Takeo said that De Lima only making noise so the people may forgot all the accusations against her.
Cezs Arbolado-Badong believed that the opposition wanted to portray De Lima as a hero, but she’s confident that the lady Senator can’t gain new supporters.
@ilda_talk, a writer from getrealphilippines that De Lima should be condemned than be awarded for not doing her job when she was the Justice Secretary.
An org gave De Lima an award for her so-called fight vs EJK?! They should be condemning her for not doing her job when she was DOJ Sec!
— ilda (@ilda_talk) December 13, 2016
DLSU Professor Antonio Contreras questioned the timing of the award for De Lima and Comelec that happened on the same month.
Jason Dela Cruz labeled the Foreign Policy as a one sided group which ran by the elites who supported De Lima.
The Netizens also attacked the official Facebook fanpage of Foreign Policy and questioned the magazine for labeling Duterte as an extremist while the administration let De Lima leave the country.
Hundreds of people also claimed that they sent an email to the magazine to express their anger for honoring De Lima.
Despite of the people who opposed the award for Leila De Lima, the organization would still honored the lady Senator who’s also going to Berlin to attend the Annual Conference on Cultural Diplomacy in Berlin.
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That is the power of so called PA-AWA....this Mag.who gave her award I believed was about to go bankruptcy and need to this to get back in the limelight
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