Still feeling bitter about her husband’s, Rep. Jose de Venecia Jr., ouster as House Speaker, Gina de Venecia celebrated her February 15 birthday this year quietly in contrast to her usual big parties. 

Speaking during a radio program on Aksyon Radyo, Mrs. De Venecia said she opted for a “quiet” celebration “with people who really matter to them”.

She tagged the recent political setback of her husband as an act of “vendetta of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo’s congressman-sons”.

Mrs. De Venecia has officially cut her ties with the administration by resigning from her post as consultant at the National Disaster Coordinating Council, saying, “I can’t work anymore with the administration that I do not believe in.”

 Her daughter, Carissa Cruz Evangelista, has also resigned last week as undersecretary of the Department of Trade and Industry.

“I was really hurt,” she said, adding that the pain inflicted on them was aggravated by the sight of their supposed political allies deserting them during the voting in the House of Representatives.

 However, Mrs. De Venecia said she is not joining the communal  action calling for the resignation  Arroyo following a series of scandals, with the most recent involving  the controversial the  ZTE national broadband network deal which the De Venecia’s  son, Joey, exposed.

“I cannot stomach this situation,” she said.

But still, Mrs. De Venecia called on the people “to be vigilant” and added that “its better that we bring in a new breed of Filipinos we can truly be proud of.”

She said is busy doing her best as wife of a “beleaguered leader”, a mother to her stepson Joey who continues to receive death threats, working with the foundations  which she put up for battered women, children and mothers orphaned by their children.

She said she is very proud of her husband Joe and continues to pray to God for guidance. #

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