Today's Exactly100: When Numbers Didn't Matter

You wonder how much it cost Iglesia ni Cristo to summon its believers to rally around Duterte’s flag. The objective was clear, though couched in unintelligible Greek: a display of support for the president to dissuade Congress from initiating impeachment proceedings against the vice president.

The rally provoked Juan Ponce Enrile, Chief Presidential Legal Counsel to the president, into denouncing the event as an attempt to impose “political pressure” on the president, calling it a “very detrimental precedent.”

The result of the million-strong gathering before the Rizal Monument? Sara Duterte is formally impeached and set to appear in court.

Oops. /Vincent R. Pozon