Robredo to discuss future plans with Aquino and Roxas

Vice President Maria Leonor “Leni” Robredo has called for a meeting with leaders of the Liberal Party (LP) to discuss its next steps following her resignation from the Cabinet of President Rodrigo Duterte.Speaking to reporters, Robredo said she would like to consult former president and LP stalwart Benigno Aquino  and defeated LP presidential bet Manuel Roxas.“I hope there’s an opportunity so sit down,” Robredo said in Laguna, where she attended the 30th anniversary celebration of microfinance organisation Card-MRI.Robredo,who resigned from Duterte’s Cabinet last week, said she had informed Aquino, Roxas and other LP leaders of her decision to quit but “not in details.”Robredo stepped down as housing czar after Duterte, through Cabinet Secretary Leoncio Evasco Jr, instructed her to “desist from attending all Cabinet meetings.”Palace officials later cited her “irreconcilable differences” with the president as the reason for the directive.Robredo has since expressed her willingness to unify the “discordant voices” of those who are critical of the administration’s policies, hoping that this would make the president listen and perhaps reconsider.Some LP members have called on party leaders to break away from majority coalitions in the House and Senate, and take on the role of an opposition party. On Saturday, the vice president said she was hoping politics would stop getting in the way of sworn duty.