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Does Frankie Pangilinan have plans to join politics?

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E. Kristhoff Cagape

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<p>Frankie Pangilinan has no plans of entering politics.</p><p>In an interview with Boy Abunda, Frankie emphasized that politics has never been part of her plans despite being vocal about national issues.</p><p>&quot;I understood suddenly ganun pala ang mga tao actually. Tuwing nagiging politically involved, ibig sabihin may ambition... may interes at least, and I never was that kind of person,&quot; she pointed out.</p><p>Frankie said her outspokenness stems purely from her concern for her fellow Filipinos. &quot;It is really just tao pong Pilipino na nais pong magbago ang mga problema sa Pilipinas and I think that&#x27;s just really just it, bilang mamamayang Pilipino and hindi po bilang anak ng sino man,&quot; she emphasized.</p><iframe class="instagram-media instagram-media-rendered" id="instagram-embed-32" src="https://www.instagram.com/p/C6iDiXKtq3Q/embed/?cr=1&amp;v=14&amp;wp=768&amp;rd=https%3A%2F%2Fod2-workbench-web.abs-cbn.com&amp;rp=%2F#%7B%22ci%22%3A32%2C%22os%22%3A10056455%7D" allowtransparency="true" allowfullscreen="" frameBorder="0" height="796" data-instgrm-payload-id="instagram-media-payload-32" scrolling="no" style="background:white;max-width:540px;width:calc(100% - 2px);border-radius:3px;border:1px solid rgb(219, 219, 219);box-shadow:none;display:block;margin:0px 0px 12px;min-width:326px;padding:0px"></iframe><script async="" src="//www.instagram.com/embed.js"></script><p>In the same interview, the singer and online personality also opened up about being vocal online on national issues and why she eventually decided to take a step back. &quot;I had to take a step back because I realized I was treating my Twitter—most people my age were treating their Twitter without a fundamental understanding—na teka lang I am not like most people my age,&quot; she said.</p><p>But she stressed that she is not backing down from speaking on important matters. Instead, she has become more selective about which issues to address.</p><p>&quot;It is more of like realizing I didn&#x27;t want to be the mouthpiece of movements that I shouldn&#x27;t be the mouthpiece for... On Twitter for example nga like you see a lot of people my age we all talk about these issues, we talk about the same things... Hindi naman po ako &#x27;yung unang nag-tweet tungkol sa feminism. Nagulat na lang po ako na bakit naging &#x27;Kakie says&#x27; or di ba biglang all of the headlines like &#x27;Kakie says this.&#x27;&quot;</p><p>She went on: &quot;[I felt] hurt about it but also it was okay, I took it like sort of like on the chin of I have a responsibility to myself to remember that I can&#x27;t always be that sort of private person no matter how much I want to be.&quot;</p><p>Frankie is the daughter of senator Francis &quot;Kiko&quot; Pangilinan and Megastar Sharon Cuneta.</p>