By Steven Rood The Asia Foundation While waiting for clarity in these races, it is useful to reflect on past elections for the light they shed on the present. One lesson is how all Philippine governments rely on elections for their legitimacy, and care a great deal about foreign opinion about those elections.
Departure statement of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo: On her visits to Italy, Portugal & China
The sun never sets on the work of the Philippine President in the modern world. In the past two weeks, I have traveled across East Asia to reap greater tides, peace and prosperity for our nation; and I am embarking today for the Vatican and Portugal in a virtually uninterrupted voyage for trade, investments, peace, security and spiritual rearmament for the Filipino people.
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Motion for reconsideration to be filed against SC ruling on “Batasan 6”
The Department of Justice (DOJ) was saddened and apprehensive with the recent 23-page ruling of the Supreme Court dismissing the rebellion case against six party-list representatives dubbed the “Batasan 6” and their co-accused, who purportedly conspired in an armed revolt to overthrow the government.
According to the DOJ, the dismissal is fraught with far-reaching and adverse consequences on our criminal justice system. Thus, through the Solicitor General, the DOJ will file a motion for reconsideration.
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Gloria Arroyo?s visit to Rome, the seat of the Vatican, on June 2-4, is part of her regime?s international public relations blitz to repair the tarnished image of the Philippines as a democratic country after the fraudulent and violent congressional and local elections last May 14. It is also part of her regime?s efforts to solicit foreign aid and drum up political support for her regime?s greater diabolical plans to perpetuate fascist rule through the newly-passed anti-terrorism law.
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MANILA — The militant Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP) and its allies visited ANAKPAWIS Rep. Crispin Beltran to show the peasantry?s solidarity with the detained labor leader and to call for his immediate release.
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