| Story Views | |
| Now: | |
| Last Hour: | |
| Last 24 Hours: | |
| Total: | |
PNoy lack of resolve and incompetence emboldens CGMA’s reelection bid –group
Saturday, July 28, 2012 19:25
% of readers think this story is Fact. Add your two cents.
Press Release
29 July 2012
PNoy lack of resolve and incompetence emboldens CGMA’s reelection bid –group
What gives former president and now Pampanga congresswoman Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo (CGMA) the gall to run for the May 2013 congressional reelection despite illness and facing numerous charges? For the activist Filipino migrants’ right group it is the current Aquino III government lack of resolve and incompetence that emboldens CGMA’s reelection bid.
“We could well remember Pres. Aquino, during previous public announcements, saying that his administration will go slowly but surely in building strong and solid cases against CGMA, only to be surprised with the recent temporary released of CGMA as ordered by the Pasay Regional trial court for lack of the necessary evidence on the electoral sabotage case filed by the COMELEC and DoJ, thus granting her bail,” said John Leonard Monterona, Migrante-Middle East regional coordinator.
It took more than a year for the Aquino III govt. to file a formal case against CGMA necessitated by the latter’s move to leave the country supposedly for medical treatment abroad. Thus, to bare CGMA from leaving the country, the COMELEC and the DoJ rushed the filing of electoral sabotage case against her.
Monterona also noted the recent rejection of the Sandiganbayan to issue an arrest warrant against CGMA in connection to the PSCO diversion of funds, saying it was “a double-whammy on PNoys anti-corruption campaign”.
“These recent legal set-backs due to PNoy govt. lack of resolve and incompetence certainly bolster CGMA reelection bid knowing now that she could win more legal battles ahead,” Monterona noted.
Monterona also noted that public perception now turns favorable to CGMA’s side.
“The public perception now is that the Aquino III govt. has no resolve and is incompetent in sending CGMA and her cohorts behind bars amid numerous potential lawsuits against CGMA such as electoral sabotage, human rights violations, and graft and corruption, among others,”Monterona averred.
But on the other hand, Monterona added, one could not also discount the possibility of political bargaining taking place between the two camps wherein the PNoy govt. would be lax in prosecuting CGMA in exchange of her support to PNoy’s programs and policies.
“It would be to the best interest of the Aquino III govt. to consolidate its forces even reaching hands to CGMA and her camp just like what it recently did forming an alliance with the Nationalista Party and Nationalist People’s Coalition, to control or neutralize the so called ‘oppositions’,” Monterona noted.
“The Filipino people, the civil society and sectoral groups must be vigilant, must expose and oppose PNoy govt. machinations to disrupt CGMA’s prosecution and imprisonment. Our call remains the same: JAIL CGMA!”Monterona ended. # # #
Reference:
John Leonard Monterona, regional coordinator
Migrante-Middle East
Mobile Nos. 00974 33 20 5565 / 0063 923 420 0112
2012-07-28 19:20:37
Source: http://migranteme.blogspot.com/2012/07/pnoy-lack-of-resolve-and-incompetence.html
Source:
