(this article is an update from a previous post)click here to see previous article on impeachment
In politics, there is no permanent friend nor enemy, only permanent interests; this has been proven by former House Speaker Jose de Venecia Jr. who supported his son in the filing of the impeachment charge and later testified in the House Committee on Justice, accusing President Arroyo, his husband First Gentleman Mike Arroyo and then Comelec Chairman Benjamin Abalos of having orchestrated a controversial broadband deal with ZTE, a Chinese business firm. However majority of the congressmen believed that his testimony harvests more question against JDV than President Arroyo herself and likewise they believe that the former Speaker was just sour graping, as he was removed from being the House Speaker.
Last week of November, the House Justice Committee of the 14th Philippine Congress dismissed the impeachment complaint against Philippine President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo by 42-8 votes, saying that it was "insufficient in substance". The new impeachment complaint filed against President Arroyo is based on "rehashed and recycled" impeachable offenses that were already dismissed in previous impeachment filings for the past three years, said by the vice chairman of the Justice Committee. Now, the House of Representatives acting as committee of the whole has finally junked the fourth impeachment charge against Arroyo wherein out of the 238 members of the House, a total of 183 lawmakers voted to uphold the House committee report, and 21 on the negative side, while 3 congressmen choose to abstain. The allies of the president in Congress have certainly outweigh the opposition congressmen, in which the latter were mostly party-list representatives. It is clear enough to say that, it was a numbers game again that made favorable to the president. By this, the opposition has to wait again for next year, if they still want to impeach the president by due process.
In my own perspective of the issue of impeachment against president Arroyo, well the only thing that i could say is that we must face it, whether we like it or not, there's no better person to lead this nation until 2010 than the incumbent president, I'm not being a Pro-Arroyo in a way, I have to make that thing clear. My point here is that, we must always bear in mind the possible repercussions that it will cause granting the president will be removed from office. Political Instability, among others would only pull down our thrust to move forward as a nation. Its time to heal the wounds of the past, and must now face the problems that poses real threat to our country, these are the global financial crisis that we are experiencing at present, the continuing threat of terrorism, and of course not to exclude from the list is the extensive corruption in the government.
In politics, there is no permanent friend nor enemy, only permanent interests; this has been proven by former House Speaker Jose de Venecia Jr. who supported his son in the filing of the impeachment charge and later testified in the House Committee on Justice, accusing President Arroyo, his husband First Gentleman Mike Arroyo and then Comelec Chairman Benjamin Abalos of having orchestrated a controversial broadband deal with ZTE, a Chinese business firm. However majority of the congressmen believed that his testimony harvests more question against JDV than President Arroyo herself and likewise they believe that the former Speaker was just sour graping, as he was removed from being the House Speaker.
Last week of November, the House Justice Committee of the 14th Philippine Congress dismissed the impeachment complaint against Philippine President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo by 42-8 votes, saying that it was "insufficient in substance". The new impeachment complaint filed against President Arroyo is based on "rehashed and recycled" impeachable offenses that were already dismissed in previous impeachment filings for the past three years, said by the vice chairman of the Justice Committee. Now, the House of Representatives acting as committee of the whole has finally junked the fourth impeachment charge against Arroyo wherein out of the 238 members of the House, a total of 183 lawmakers voted to uphold the House committee report, and 21 on the negative side, while 3 congressmen choose to abstain. The allies of the president in Congress have certainly outweigh the opposition congressmen, in which the latter were mostly party-list representatives. It is clear enough to say that, it was a numbers game again that made favorable to the president. By this, the opposition has to wait again for next year, if they still want to impeach the president by due process.
In my own perspective of the issue of impeachment against president Arroyo, well the only thing that i could say is that we must face it, whether we like it or not, there's no better person to lead this nation until 2010 than the incumbent president, I'm not being a Pro-Arroyo in a way, I have to make that thing clear. My point here is that, we must always bear in mind the possible repercussions that it will cause granting the president will be removed from office. Political Instability, among others would only pull down our thrust to move forward as a nation. Its time to heal the wounds of the past, and must now face the problems that poses real threat to our country, these are the global financial crisis that we are experiencing at present, the continuing threat of terrorism, and of course not to exclude from the list is the extensive corruption in the government.
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