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Pumapayag ang Comelec sa bastusan sa partylist system

Published by Ellen on June 2, 2010

Nabastos talaga ng husto ang partylist system.

Ang layunin ng batas ay matino: mabigyan ng representasyon ang mga naapi at mga walang boses. Kasi nga sa gastos ng ating klaseng pulitika, ang mga mahihirap ay wala talagang pag-asang magkaroon ng representasyon sa Kongreso.
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The ‘marginalized’

Ayon sa ating saligang batas, “The party-list representatives shall constitute twenty percentum of the total number of representatives….from labor, peasant, urban poor, indigenous cultural communities, women, youth” at iba pang sector ayun sa batas maliban lamang sa religious sector.

Ngunit tingnan mo naman itong Buhay, isa sa mga nanalo. Isa sa kanilang nominee ay si Mike Velarde ng El Shaddai. At halata namang partido ito ng El Shaddai na alam naman natin ay religious kuno.

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Hindi malinis ang pagka-ayos ni Mikey

Published by Ellen on March 8, 2010

Mula nang inilabas naming ang balita tungkol sa bahay ng magkapatid na Mikey at Dato Arroyo sa San Francisco, marami ang nagtatanong sa amin kung ano ang nangyari.

Marami ang naiinis na parang hanggang diyaryo lang. Wala naming nangyayari. Tuloy naman ang ligaya ng mga nagsasamantala ng kanilang posisyun sa gobyerno para sa kanilang sarili.

Kahapon, nilabas namin ang bagong impormasyun na nakuha mula sa San Francisco. Nilipat nang mga abogado ni Mikey ang bahay sa Foster City na nagkakahalaga ng $1.32 million na nasa pangalan ng kanyang asawa na si Angela Montenegro sa pangalan ng Beachway LLC noong Septyembre 18, 2009.

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Bastardizing the partylist

Published by Ellen on March 2, 2010

Parañaque Rep. Roilo Golez sees conflict of interest in the membership of Energy Secretary Angelo Reyes in 1-Utak (United Transport Koalisyun), a partylist group.

Golez said in the hearing of the House Energy Committee last Monday, Reyes admitted that he was offered a slot in the 1-Utak party list and in a TV interview, he said he is considering it.

His nomination indicates that he has been a member of the past three months because the law states that a nominee should be “A bona fide member of the party he seeks to represent for at least ninety (90) days preceding election day.”

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Partylist naman ang pasok ni Mikey Arroyo

Published by Ellen on March 1, 2010

Hindi talaga humihinto itong mga Arroyo sa pambababoy ng batas para lang manatili sa kapangyarihan.

Dahil nawalan siya ng kaharian sa pagtakbo ng nanay niya bilang congressman ng pangalawang distrito ng Pampanga, nakahanap siya ngayon ng paraan na mananatili sa Kongreso sa pamamagitan ng partylist, na linagay sa Constitution para mabigyan ng representasyon ang mga grupo ng mga mahihirap at mahihina sa lipunan. Kasi naman hindi sila maaring makipaglaban sa mga tradisyunal na pulitiko sa eleksyun.

Nominado si Mikey bilang unang kinatawan ng Ang Galing Pinoy (AGP) na ang nirepresenta daw ay transport drivers at security guards. Kasama niya ang outgoing mayor ng Lubao na si Dennis Pineda.

Ang kapal talaga at ang kapal din ng Comelec kung aprubahan ito.

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Mikey Arroyo finds Facebook posts ‘depressing”

Published by Ellen on September 30, 2009

In an article written by Gil Cabacungan, Inquirer reported that Pampanga Rep. Juan Miguel “Mikey Arroyo” yesterday pushed for tighter regulation of the Facebook, the world’s leading social networking site, after he claimed to be a victim of a “malicious attack” by one of its members.

“My picture was posted on Facebook with a caption saying I was shopping for wine at the height of “ondoy”. This is another malicious attack on my person. It is so depressing,” Arroyo wrote in an e-mail response to the Facebook post which has appeared in several blogs.

Arroyo claimed he was in Malacañang last Saturday and that it was difficult to cross Katipunan from the village where he lives because of the rising floods. “How could I be at Rustan’s on Katipunan Avenue at the height of Ondoy when Katipunan was impassable at that time? For the record I was in Malañang with my family trying to mobilize rescue and relief operations for people of Metro Manila and for my constituents in my district in Pampanga,” he said.

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Mikey’s assets before getting elected: P50,000

Published by Ellen on September 11, 2009

Miriam Grace A. Go
Newsbreak

President Arroyo’s oldest child, Pampanga Rep. Juan Miguel “Mikey” Arroyo, has lately been under scrutiny not only for allegedly misdeclaring his properties but also for being unable to explain satisfactorily how his net worth grew by more than 1,600% in the 7 years that he was an elected official.

Now, he may have to explain, too, the wealth that he acquired before getting elected as vice governor of Pampanga in 2001.

Newsbreak research shows that the rate by which Mikey’s net worth increased from the time he first served as his mother’s executive assistant in the Senate, to his election as provincial vice governor—an 8-year period—was far more dramatic.

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Graft charges filed vs Mikey Arroyo; Ombudsman tightens rules on access to officials’ SALN

Published by Ellen on September 10, 2009

By Michael Punongbayan
The Philippine Star

Following a series of negative reports on the First Family’s wealth based partly on their Statements of Assets, Liabilities and Net Worth, the Office of the Ombudsman has tightened rules in giving out copies of government officials’ SALN “to protect the integrity of the document.”

Graft rap filed vs Mikey Arroyo

By Philip Tubeza
Philippine Daily Inquirer

Militant government workers have filed with the Ombudsman a graft complaint against Pampanga Representative Juan Miguel “Mikey” Arroyo for not declaring his P63.7-million property in California in his statement of assets, liabilities and net worth (SALN).

“With the small salary he gets, it is unacceptable that his assets more than tripled,” said Ferdinand Gaite, president of the Confederation for Unity, Recognition and Advancement of Government Employees (Courage), which filed the complaint at 12 noon Thursday

Assistant Ombudsman Mark Jalandoni said the Ombudsman field investigation unit has already been looking into Arroyo’s assets after receiving an anonymous online complaint against him weeks ago.

Instead of a simple letter-request, requirements now include a sworn statement before a prosecutor of the anti-graft body stating the reasons for the request.

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