Alvarez sings paeans to Joede V
Posted on April 23, 2007 - Filed Under General |
FORMER Senator Heherson Alvarez said here on Sunday that if the people of the fourth district of Pangasinan will commit the mistake of electing someone who can not do better than House Speaker Jose de Venecia, “the whole nation will suffer”.
Speaking to local newsmen, Alvarez said de Venecia is an asset for the whole nation while his opponent, Mayor Benjamin Lim of Dagupan City—who may be industrious and handsome — lacks the caliber to become a national and global leader like De Venecia.
Alvarez is vice president of Luzon of the ruling party Christian-Muslim Democrats, of which De Veneica is the president and co-founder.
Saying that it will take many years to make a Speaker in the caliber of de Venecia, Alvarez said they in Isabela envy the people of Pangasinan because another Speaker emerged 54 years after the death of the first speaker from Pangasinan, Eugenio Perez Sr.
“Imagine, you elected here Lolo Eniong (nickname of Speaker Eugenio Perez Sr). And after 54 years, you produced another Speaker in the person of Speaker de Venecia,” he said.
The former senator said he knows Lim to well because he was his colleague in the House of Representatives from 1998 to 2001 and knows that he could not have done better than what De Venecia did.
Alvarez called on the people of the fourth district of Pangasinan that if they’re going to make the choice on who’s going to be the congressman here, they should be very careful because they are “deciding for the whole nation.”
That’s why, he said, even people in other provinces ought to be involved in the elections in Dagupan City, Mangaldan, San Fabian, San Jacinto and Manaoag, as the electorate “might commit the mistake in their choice—which would hurt us all.”
He said Lim might be aggressive but he can not duplicate what De Venecia had done and can do as leader of the whole House of Representatives, of the nation and of the world.
The senator from Isabela said the name of Speaker de Venecia reverberated even in the halls of the United Nations where his novel debt for equity proposal was adopted.
“It is not easy to make a Speaker. This Speaker (De Venecia) is an unusual one. He’s not only a Speaker of the House. He’s also an acknowledged statesman and a world legislator,” Alvarez declared.
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