| Former president Fidel Ramos, left, and The Foundation for Hospital Art Executive Director John Feight from Atlanta, second from left, help a wounded Filipino soldier during the Chulas Paint Festival for soldiers at the Armed Forces of the Philippines Medical Center. The foundation’s art program serves as therapy for soldiers recovering from wounds they incurred during battles with al-Qaida linked insurgents and communist rebels. (AP Photo) |
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MANILA – A day after President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo ordered the suspension of the controversial broadband deal, her legal counsel said Malacañang cannot call off the contract because it could still be declared valid by the Supreme Court (SC).
“The case is still pending at the Supreme Court. What if the SC declared the contract as valid? So we cannot cancel it right now. If the SC declared the contract as illegal or null and void, then we will respect it,” Chief Presidential Legal Counsel Sergio Apostol said.
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