CEBU CITY—The impossible just happened.
President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo and former President Joseph Estrada smiled at each other, linked their arms, and walked down the aisle on Saturday night in a cathedral.
PRESIDENT Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo and former President Joseph Estrada, and Sen. Loren Legarda and Vice President Noli de Castro are the wedding sponsors of Mayor Vincent Frasco and Ma. Esperanza Christina Garcia Codilla in Cebu.
After months of exchanging barbs, the leaders of two opposing political parties appeared friendly with each if only for a few minutes.
The occasion was the wedding of Liloan Mayor Vincent “Duke†Frasco to lawyer Ma. Esperanza Christina Garcia-Codilla, daughter of Cebu Gov. Gwen Garcia, that was held at Cebu Metropolitan Cathedral here.
Ms Arroyo, an ally of the governor, was a principal sponsor along with Estrada, a family friend of the Frascos.
Ms Arroyo and Estrada were not supposed to walk together as they were not “paired†with each other on the list of principal sponsors.
During the wedding processional they walked with their assigned partners, but at the end of the ceremony “it just happened.†During the recessional, the two political powerhouses walked down the aisle together and continued to do so until they were outside the church.
Onlookers cheered at the rare sight.
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