Senator Cynthia Villar has often become the butt of netizens’ jokes (and insults) for saying some of the most shocking things in public. Yesterday, she provided laughs to her own colleagues when she kept looking for a missing staff member in the middle of a video conference.
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Juan Miguel Zubiri, another senator, was speaking when a confused Villar suddenly said in Filipino, “What’s the answer to this, Dianne? Dianne?”
Other senators laughed at Villar’s confusion and a chuckling Zubiri told Senate President Vicente Sotto, “Mr. President, we’re having some technical difficulties with Senator Villar, so I move that Diane will be recognized, Mr. President.”
After a couple of seconds, Sotto said, “It’s alright now; she has muted her [microphone].”
You can watch what went down in the video below.
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The billionaire Villar has earned a rep for saying things that rub people the wrong way. In October 2019, she earned public scorn for calling the Agriculture Department “crazy” for spending a huge portion of their budget on research. In December, she appeared tone-deaf to the plight of ordinary Filipinos when she said the public should just eat vegetables if they find the fish galunggong too expensive.
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