"A year before the midterm elections, who is the aggressive voice of the opposition?" Rappler wrote. "By all accounts, it should still be Robredo. It can't be the anemic opposition senators and congressmen whose biggest battle is to stay in the supermajority. It can't be the uncharismatic De Lima, who has been reduced to handwritten letters from jail. Neither is it Antonio Trillanes, whose performance ratings have sunk to all-time lows. It's not yet Risa Hontiveros whose left-of-center politics had never caught the public's fancy."