| DEFIANT. (From left) Party-list Reps. Joel Virador, Satur Ocampo, Teodoro Casiño and Rafael Mariano took refuge in Congress to avoid arrest after being implicated in a coup plot.(Ap photo) |
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As resistance to emergency powers intensified, Finance Secretary Margarito Teves said President Arroyo may lift Proclamation 1017 as early as Saturday, if there is no longer a national security threat.
The Supreme Court yesterday ordered the Arroyo administration to explain the basis for the proclamation, at a hearing scheduled for March 7.
But in the meantime, the crackdown on prominent administration critics continued.
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