When do private lives become public?

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LEAVING FOR GOOD. Enrile's staff said lawyer Gigi Reyes already packed up her things after resigning as the Senate President's chief of staff. File photo of Reyes from the Senate's impeachment book 'The Honor of the Senate.'

Should private relationships in public office matter? This question is again hotly debated following a Senate war that triggered the resignation of the chief of staff of Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile. In a stinging privilege speech, Sen. Alan Peter Cayetano narrated the supposed influence and power of Jessica “Gigi” Reyes, Enrile’s longtime chief of staff. It is easy to read between the lines and conclude that Enrile and Gigi enjoy a close, if not special, relationship. Despite the denials then and today of Enrile and his chief of staff, their personal relationship is very much in the public domain. And it does matter.


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