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The Superstar has spoken.
“Movie legend Nora Aunor is lending some star power to the clamor for President Benigno Aquino III to step down. But while other critics are mainly calling for the President’s head over the Mamasapano debacle, internationally acclaimed actress Nora Aunor is also blaming Aquino for supposedly doing nothing to reverse the diaspora of Filipinos being forced to work abroad for lack of jobs at home,” reports Erika Sauler in Philippine Daily Inquirer.
The report noted: “Aunor, who was dropped by Malacañang from the National Artist awards last year because of her 2005 drug case in the United States, called for the President’s resignation in a rally on Tuesday, March 17, outside the Palace marking the 20th death anniversary of Flor Contemplacion, the Filipino domestic helper hanged in Singapore in 1995.”
Aunor had played Contemplacion in a 1995 film.
In a speech during the rally organized by the militant group Migrante International, Aunor was quoted as saying in Filipino, “We are commemorating the death of our fellow Filipino who was executed in Singapore. And we are calling on the President to step down because, in my opinion, he has not done anything for our countrymen and he has committed several mistakes.”
She added: “If there is genuine reform in our rotten system, we wouldn’t have to be victims of trafficking, slavery and abuses.”
Aunor wore a shirt with these words printed on it: “Proud to be Filipino. Ashamed of my government.”
