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Don't cover up your failures as Alyansa campaign manager—Gutierrez tells Tiangco

Published May 18, 2025 10:37 am
Navotas Rep. Toby Tiangco, Alyansa para sa Bagong Pilipinas campaign manager, has no one to blame but himself in the poor performance of the Marcos administration’s senatorial bets in the recently held 2025 midterm polls, former vice presidential spokesman Barry Gutierrez said on Sunday, May 18.

Navotas City lone district Rep. Toby Tiangco and former vice presidential spokesman Barry Gutierrez (MB, OVP Photos)

In a statement, the former lawmaker lambasted Tiangco for blaming his own failures as campaign manager on the impeachment of Vice President Sara Duterte.

“Let’s call this for what it is: Toby Tiangco failed to deliver. And now, he’s pointing fingers instead of accepting what’s obvious: ang tunay na dahilan ng pagkatalo ay ang kapalpakan niya mismo (the real reason for the loss is because of his dismal performance),” Gutierrez, a lawyer, said.

“Kung naging maayos siyang campaign manager, hindi siya maghahanap ngayon ng palusot (If he did well as campaign manager, he won’t be looking for excuses now),” he added.

The former spokesman of ex-vice president and now Naga City Mayor-elect Leni Robredo stressed that Tiangco putting the blame on the impeachment “just shows he’s scrambling to escape responsibility for a campaign he mismanaged from the start.”

He pointed out that most of the lawmakers who voted yes to impeach Duterte won in the lower house, contrary to Tiangco’s theory.

Tiangco earlier said that Duterte’s impeachment was to blame for the dismal performance of Alyansa bets, specifically in Mindanao, a Duterte stronghold.

Of the 12 senatorial bets of Alyansa, a coalition composed of five parties, only six entered the so-called Magic 12, with Las Piñas Rep. Camille Villar even seeking Duterte’s endorsement.

Presidential sister Imee Marcos, originally running under the Alyansa coalition, also sought the Vice President’s endorsement and was adopted by former president Rodrigo Duterte’s Partido Demokratiko Pilipino-Lakas ng Bayan (PDP-Laban) a few days before Election Day.

Gutierrez even questioned Tiangco’s true motive, alleging that he might have sabotaged Alyansa’s campaign in Mindanao.

“Baka naman ayaw niya talaga sa impeachment. Baka sinadya niyang pabayaan ang Mindanao para siguradong hindi makalusot ang boto para sa impeachment sa Senado (Maybe he is not in favor of the impeachment. Maybe he intentionally neglected Mindanao so that the vote for the impeachment won’t materialize in the Senate),” he explained.

“If that’s the case, this was never about campaign strategy. It was political sabotage,” he added.

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