MANILA — A group of former Cabinet officials accused Malacañang of having a hand in the endorsement of the impeachment complaint filed by private lawyer Oliver Lozano, which the opposition has branded as a sham.
The accusation by former social welfare secretary Corazon “Dinky” Soliman came as the House justice committee resumed its hearing on three [...]
MANILA — Pandemonium and a walkout by opposition legislators marred Tuesday’s hearing by the House justice committee on the impeachment complaints filed against President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo.
In the end, the justice committee, minus most of the opposition legislators, voted 54 to 2 to declare the amended case filed by the minority and party-list legislators as a [...]
MANILA — Two administration congressmen had said that the opposition may have lost steam and reached a “dead end” in the pursuit of more signatories to the amended impeachment complaint against President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo.
“They (opposition congressmen) are trying to bluff their way. Their purpose is to mislead those whom they are inviting to sign,” said [...]
MANILA — Representative Ma. Imelda “Imee” Marcos of Ilocos Norte said Saturday the minority bloc is getting closer to the 79 signatures needed to automatically transmit the impeachment complaint against President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo to the Senate for trial.
Six congressmen who are members of the Nacionalista and Liberal parties are the latest batch of lawmakers who [...]
PRESS secretary and presidential spokesman Ignacio Bunye reiterated the independence of the legislative branch from the executive, including the members of the House despite majority of its members being allies of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo.
Bunye made the statement as he denied suspicions of the opposition that Malacañang is merely floating reports that five more members of [...]
MANILA — Members of the House committee on justice argued lengthily Wednesday over whether the amended impeachment complaint filed by the opposition against President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo is a separate and new case from that filed by lawyer Oliver Lozano.
Alliance of Volunteers Educators (AVE) party-list Representative Eulogio Magsaysay, who is one of the endorsers of the [...]
MANILA — An opposition attempt to oust President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo for alleged electoral fraud suffered a setback when her opponents lost an initial vote on how to handle the impeachment complaints.
Voting 54-24 with three abstentions, the House of Representatives justice committee decided there were “prejudicial questions” that stopped them from immediately hearing the three complaints [...]
MANILA — The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said Monday that it acts on any request of Congress and the appeal to find former Commission on Elections (Comelec) commissioner Virgilio Garcillano is no different.
The foreign affairs office issued the statement after Senator Aquilino Pimentel Jr. accused the agency of “making use of unconvincing excuses as [...]
MANILA — Evangelist Mike Velarde, leader of the religious group El Shaddai, said Sunday that he would find ways to patch up the “longstanding dispute” between President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo and deposed president Joseph Estrada.
Velarde issued the statement after the reported failure of the reconciliation talks between the two quarrelling state leaders during the celebration of [...]
MANILA — Philippine President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo warned Saturday that the rising price of oil threatens the country’s foreign exchange reserves as well as its energy supplies.
The Philippines, which imports nearly all its petroleum, is likely to use a larger portion of its US dollar reserves to pay for its crude oil, which closed above US$65 [...]
