UniTeam senatorial candidate Harry Roque is ready to face all senatorial debates and answer significant issues that beset the country and the lives of Filipinos.
Roque, a human rights lawyer, said that he wanted to debate with lawyer Chel Diokno, Sen. Risa Hontiveros, and activist Teddy Baguilat.
“Sila ‘yung feeling na sila lang ang tama. Bakit saan ba nila kinuha ‘yung basbas na sila lang ang tama? Kumbaga sa kanilang daigdig, wala ng ibang magmamahal sa bayan kung hindi silang tatlo lang?” asked Roque.
“I’d like to expose them for who they are,” Roque said in an interview with The Philippine Catalog.
Roque said he would ask Hontiveros about the Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth).
“Tatanungin ko, bakit ang mga korapsyon sa PhilHealth ngayon ay dahilan na nais kong palitan ng National Health Service? Bakit nagsimula ‘yan noong miyembro ng Board of Trustees ‘yung sinabi mong kandidata,” he said.
Roque said he studied the implications of replacing Philhealth with a National Health Service that would guarantee “zero billing” in hospitals, free health services, medicines, and medical tests for those seeking treatment.
“’Yung isa naman diyan akala mo paglilingkod sa bayan, palibhasa anak siya ng tatay niya tingin niya sapat na ‘yun. Ano ba ang napatunayan mo?” he said.
Roque, a former presidential spokesperson, is ALSO a human rights advocate.
“Hindi po nagbabago ang aking panindidgan bagamat bilang tagapagsalita lahat ng sinasabi ko ay paningin lang ng presidente. Puwede ba naman ‘yun ikaw ang tagapagsalita tapos ang sinasabi mo ay personal mong opinyon,” he said.
“Hindi po puwede na palibhasa nag spokesperson ako buburahin mo na ang katarungang ibinigay ko sa mga mamamahayag na napatay ng Maguindanao Masssacre. Hindi naman po puwede na palibhasa na nag spokesperson ako mababalewala na ang conviction na nakuha natin kay Pemberton,” he stressed.
The former congressman represented the family of slain transgender Filipino woman Jennifer Laude in 2014 and the victims of the Maguindanao Massacre in 2009.
