THE BARGAIN HUNTER President Aquino confers with his controversial
political adviser, Ronald Llamas, in Malacañang. EDWIN BACASMAS
Even with a Cabinet rank and the privilege of being in the
President’s inner circle, Ronald Llamas claims he still forgets that
he’s “no longer a regular guy.”The presidential adviser on political affairs admitted this much in an interview on Monday, after issuing a formal apology to Malacañang over a Philippine Daily Inquirer eyewitness report that spotted him buying pirated DVDs in a Quezon City mall last week.
The episode once again put Llamas on the spot, three months after he was forced to explain why he was keeping several firearms, including a semiautomatic assault rifle which was inadvertently exposed in public after two of his bodyguards figured in a road accident while Llamas was abroad.
But Llamas need not feel alone and without friends on this one. Among those who think he should be given some slack is a former President—and ironically a pillar of the local film industry—as well as a former university president who vouched for Llamas’ “simplicity” and fancy for “everything cheap.”
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