Can Leni Loud Robredo Defend Her Budget Claims In A Parliamentary Philippines?

Yup, here's Leni Loud Robredo on CNN Philippines. Here's the latest updates that would actually show how people still "love" her as evidenced by all the angry faces. But let's see what if this was Leni Loud Robredo acting as the Deputy Prime Minister of the Philippine parliament. Can she survive the scrutiny that will be set there especially with her latest claim that she's sourced her budget for six advocacy areas for benefiting the poor?

As I love to stress it is that the parliamentary has an opposition or minority backbench to keep things in check. The majority and minority have to challenge each other in a debate. Right now, let's imagine the set-up of how Deputy Prime Minister Leni Loud would have to contend with the opposition. Here's a possible set-up that could have been done. We have Deputy PM Leni Loud vs. Deputy Opposition Leader Richard Gordon.

A parliamentary would require frequent scrutiny between both sides. Deputy PM Leni Loud will have to give an account to where the source came from. She can't simply say that the money fell from the sky or the funds are self-funding. She has to defend the very source of the funding for her anti-poverty programs to help the poor people from those six areas. She may even have to defend how her porridge that was served to the members of the parliament could gain that much money in such a short amount of time.

The beauty behind a parliamentary is that one side must prove to the other. The opposition can grill Deputy PM Leni Loud with applied mathematics to numerical data -- which can prove her budgeting is really faulty. This would be a call for a vote of no confidence against her position as Deputy PM of the Republic of the Philippines.