Jonathan F. Fernandez and Marie S. Neri
MANILA — An Armed Forces official said charges were being prepared against two officers who attended Wednesday’s Senate hearing investigating claims that military men helped President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo rigged last year’s elections.
Brigadier General Jose Angel Honrado, spokesperson for the military, said a case for violating Articles of War 64 [...]
Written on September 30, 2005 | Posted in
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CEBU CITY — Opposition legislators are planning to question before the Supreme Court President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo’s order prohibiting government and military officials from testifying in congressional inquiries, as Cebu Archbishop Ricardo Cardinal Vidal said he was saddened by the President’s move.
“We are sorry that they are being stopped, but we do not know exactly the [...]
Written on September 30, 2005 | Posted in
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Jonathan F. Fernandez and Marie S. Neri
MANILA — A military general who was mentioned in the controversial “Hello Garci” tapes said Wednesday that “massive cheating” was done in Lanao del Sur during last year’s general elections.
Brigadier General Francisco Gudani, former chief of the 1st Marine Brigade based in Mindanao, said among the irregular acts [...]
Written on September 29, 2005 | Posted in
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THE “Hello Garci” controversy might have been disregarded, especially with Congress’ recent dismissal of the impeachment cases against President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, but the Senate, claiming to be an independent body, is poised to revive the matter by holding a hearing on it Wednesday.
Senator Rodolfo Biazon, chairman of the Senate defense committee, which is tasked to [...]
Written on September 28, 2005 | Posted in
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PRESS secretary and presidential spokesman Ignacio Bunye virtually dismissed the Senate’s plan to invite Executive Secretary Eduardo Ermita to the Blue Ribbon committee’s investigation on the controversial Venable LLP contract in place of National Security Adviser Norberto Gonzales.
Bunye said if the Senate failed to get information from Gonzales, it would likely be repeated even if [...]
Written on September 27, 2005 | Posted in
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THE Supreme Court (SC) is set to start Monday the inventory-taking and collection of ballot boxes involved in the first aspect of the election protest of the defeated vice presidential candidate Loren Legarda.
The SC, sitting as the 15-man Presidential Electoral Tribunal (PET), directed the Commission on Elections (Comelec) to submit the project of precincts used [...]
Written on September 26, 2005 | Posted in
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MANILA — President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo does not need to declare martial law to deal with street protests seeking her ouster, Malacañang said Saturday.
Opposition groups had suggested Arroyo would resort to emergency rule to suppress continued unrest following the defeat of moves to impeach her on vote rigging, bribery and other charges.
Written on September 25, 2005 | Posted in
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Nelson C. Bagaforo and Ben O. Tesiorna
DAVAO CITY — Mayor Rodrigo Duterte has turned down his appointment to the consultative commission created by President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo to undertake studies and make recommendations to Congress if it decides to go ahead with changing the 1987 Constitution.
Duterte, in a letter to Arroyo dated Friday, thanked the President [...]
Written on September 24, 2005 | Posted in
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Dante M. Fabian
CLARK ECOZONE — President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo Thursday called on barangay leaders in Central Luzon to unite and rally behind her in transforming and correcting the political system in the country to empower the people.
Arroyo also pledged to endorse plans to postpone the barangay elections to October 2007.
Written on September 23, 2005 | Posted in
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MANILA — President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo’s spokesman on Thursday criticized senators for humiliating her national security adviser and urged them to immediately withdraw an order that he be detained for contempt.
Spokesman Ignacio Bunye said National Security Adviser Norberto Gonzales did not deserve the “abusive and unparliamentary” language fired at him during a Senate committee hearing Wednesday [...]
Written on September 23, 2005 | Posted in
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