Former Philippine National Police (PNP) chief General Guillermo Eleazar has vowed to bring his 38-year experience in the uniformed service in the Senate should he win in the upcoming May 2022 senatorial race.
Eleazar, said he would focus on programs aimed at promoting peace and order and national security in order to protect the country from different kinds of internal and external threats.
“In my 38 years of public service as a soldier and as a policeman, we saw what is needed in order to strengthen our peace and order situation for the benefit of the whole Filipino community,” Eleazar said in his speech during the proclamation rally of presidential candidate Sen. Panfilo “Ping” Lacson and vice presidential bet Senate President Vicente Sotto III on Tuesday night, February 8.
“This would be my focus because I believe that security and peace and order is the foundation of our nation’s prosperity,” the former PNP chief said.
Once elected in the Senate, Eleazar vowed to take the place of Lacson as an anti-graft lawmaker who ferociously guarded the country’s national budget in his three terms as a senator.
Both Eleazar and Lacson are former PNP chiefs and graduates of the Philippine Military Academy (PMA), the country’s premier military training institution.
“Like what our incoming President (Lacson) did in guarding the nation’s coffers and how he is angry at abusive people and authorities who abused our people, I will do the same thing for our country,” Eleazar said.
He also promised to bring up the ordinary people’s daily struggles and battles to the Senate so they would be addressed by the lawmakers.
“Our role in the Senate is to make laws and support our President and Vice President, but the bottom line here is the implementation of our laws,” he stressed.