The inside story of Enrile-Cayetano tiff

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Jose Bayani Baylon

 

Once partners in Pecabar (Ponce Enrile Cayetano Bautista and Reyes law firm), Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile (JPE) and deceased former senator Renato Cayetano parted ways over a string of political incidents. Foremost among them was Cayetano accepting the post of presidential legal counsel under Fidel V Ramos. It marked a change in the trajectory of Cayetano’s political career, “out of the magnetic field of Enrile and into its own path,” wrote lawyer Jose Bayani Baylon, who worked with both men as a young political leader. Baylon, who had been associated with Cayetano, later supported the presidential candidacy of businessman Danding Cojuangco at a time when Enrile was contemplating the presidency too. It ruffled a few feathers in the Enrile circle, but Baylon told Cayetano that in his book, “JPE was only for JPE.” The insider’s view explains in part the animosity that has erupted between Enrile and the Cayetano siblings Pia and Alan Peter. Starting over additional funds distributed by Enrile to select senators, the issue has degenerated into a personal squabble.

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