Panelo slams critics: ‘ECQ your mouths’
Chief Presidential Legal Counsel Secretary Salvador Panelo on Tuesday did not mince words against Senators Imee Marcos, Kiko Pangilinan and Franklin Drilon and told them to “shut” their mouths if they could not help but criticize the government.
“The problem with these three (Marcos, Pangilinan and Drilon), you are all in the comfort of your homes. You’re just airing spicy comments against the government, instead of helping, giving hope. If you cannot help, if possible, just ECQ your mouths and do not let it turn to GCQ,” he said.
ECQ or Enhanced Community Quarantine is the government’s strictest quarantine classifications while GCQ or General Community Quarantine refers to the most relaxed quarantine classification.
Panelo in his online daily program “Counterpoint” described how disappointed he was of Marcos, daughter of his former client, the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos.
“I cannot understand you, Imee Marcos. You really disappointed me,” he said. “You are not like your brother, former senator Bongbong Marcos. You see when he talks, he is calm. No criticism of the government, he will just do what he can to help.”
The three lawmakers have urged the government to conduct an honest-to-goodness mass testing and warned that the varying community quarantine impositions were not effective in curbing the deadly virus.
“You Kiko Pangilinan, I don’t get why Anthony Pangilinan doesn’t want to educate his older brother. You too, our brod, Franklin Drilon,” he added.
The former Palace mouthpiece said the government is already ramping up its mass testing drive. It has also increased and hired more contract tracers.