Walang-wala ang tiket ni Gloria Arroyo sa kalidad ng nasa oposisyon na ngayon ay tinatawag na Grand Coalition.
Kahit na may ilan na hindi ko gusto (ganyan lang talaga ang buhay, hindi perpekto), sa kabuuan makikita natin na talagang maingat na pinag-isipan ng mga lider ng oposisyon na sina dating Pangulong Estrada, Makati Mayor Jojo Binay, dating Senate President Ernesto Maceda, Malaya columnist Lito Banayo, Rufus Rodriguez at iba ang tiket.
Boxing champ Manny Pacquiao today said he is determined to enter politics in this coming May elections.
Pacquiao will contest the congressional seat currently held by Darlene Antonino-Custodio in the first district of South Cotabato.
Update: Custodio unfazed by Pacquiao’s planned candidacy.
The 24-year old Custodio has made a mark in the House of Representatives for actively participating in the impeachment complaints against Gloria Arroyo and in opposing the Con-Ass railroaded by the House majority last December.
While the United Opposition is looking for a name that will truly describe the grand coalition that they are now, San Juan Mayor JV Ejercito has accepted the role of campaign manager for the senatorial slate.
Opposition sources said, former Senate President Enesto Maceda will take the tougher job of assembling the local line-up for the opposition.
The opposition senatorial ticket is “a grand coalition of people from all sectors— women, the youth, the political sector and civil society,” grand coalition spokesman Adel Tamano said.
Lito Banayo, who had been speaking for UNO, will be running for representative of Manila (Ermita distict).
Senators Joker Arroyo and Ralph Recto truly belong to Gloria Arroyo.
We can now throw away whatever illusions we had nurtured for Joker in matters of democratic ideals, honesty and integrity. Never mind Recto. We never expected much from him.
A conversation I heard last week between a PDP-Laban stalwart and a reporter who covered the 2001 senatorial campaign should help explain Joker Arroyo’s puzzling maneuvers in the Senate when it comes to issues against Mike Arroyo as well as his decision to be on the administration ticket for his re-election bid.
Detained Lt.(sg) Antonio “Sonny” Trillanes is included in the United Opposition line up, UNO announced today.
For Trillanes’ legislative program visit www.magdaloparasapagbabago.blogspot.com
Update:Troops campaigning for Trillanes to be sacked, AFP says. Click here.
Try not to puke as you read this:
We ran for the Senate and won on the Arroyo administration slate. Nothing
that has happened since gives us reason not to do the same in our reelection
bid.
We have opposed the President on many major issues, before the Supreme Court no less. And we won.
We fought the Venable contract which involved American money to change the Constitution. We fought the People’s Initiative to do the same. We fought the emasculation of Congress by EO 464 and put the PCGG back under the law when it tried to rise above it. We fought Proclamation 1017, which curtailed freedom of assembly and freedom of the press.
Masarap pala ang kumandidato sa tiket ni Gloria Arroyo.
Sinasabi ng isang kasama sa Wednesday group na inaalok raw sila ng libreng eroplano at helicopter na gagamitin sa kampanya. May panggastos pa na milyun-milyon.
Kaya sana umu-o na si Ralph Recto at si Joker Arroyo sa tiket ng administrasyon at ng makapasok na si Sonny Trillanes sa United Opposition.
Last Wednesday, the Senate approved the Anti-Terror Bill which will be known as Human Security Act of 2007. It is now sent to the bicameral conference committee.
CODAL (Counsels for the Defense of Liberties) is concerned about the Senate version. Codal said, the Senate version is more draconian than that of the House.
By Gil C. Cabacungan Jr.
Philippine Daily Inquirer
President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo’s infamous temper flared up once more when she abruptly ended an interview with the Philippine Daily Inquirer in front of a stunned audience which included three Cabinet Secretaries and an official of the International Monetary Fund.
Click here for GMATV’s video report.
President Arroyo was nettled by repeated questions on why the benefits of a spectacular economic growth had not trickled down to the grassroots. She blew her top even before the Inquirer could finish what turned out to be the brief interview’s final question: “Isn’t it a concern for you ma’am that the billionaires during the time of Marcos and Ramos are also the same billionaires now?”
Lawyer Adel Tamano has accepted the position of spokesman of the United Opposition. Tamano is a partner in Kapunan Tamano Villadolid & Associates law office…