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By Perseus Echeminada The Philippine Star MANILA, Philippines – Commission on Elections (Comelec) prosecutors claimed yesterday that former President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo and her co-accused had conspired to give zero votes to then senatorial candidates Benigno Aquino III, Alan Peter Cayetano, and Panfilo Lacson during the 2007 elections in Maguindanao. Comelec prosecutors made the allegations yesterday after they presented their first witness, lawyer Nelia Oreo, a Read More …
By Pat C. Santos The Daily Tribune The Commission on Elections (Comelec) has asked, through a motion, the Pasay Regional Trial Court (RTC) to order the transfer of the detained former President, Rep. Gloria Arroyo, to a regular detention facility, which would be the Pasay City Jail. The former President is currently detained under medical arrest at the Veterans Memorial Medical Center (VMMC) in Quezon Read More …
POSTSCRIPT By Federico D. Pascual Jr. The Philippine Star DILEMMA: Former president and now congresswoman Gloria Arroyo will be tried on the charge of electoral sabotage on two levels: in a court of law and in the court of public opinion. Depending on the outcome in the lower courts, the case can go up all the way to the Supreme Court. Impeached Chief Justice Renato Read More …
AS I WRECK THIS CHAIR By William M. Esposo The Philippine Star At about the time last December 9 when the Gloria Macapagal Arroyo (GMA) camp was making a big fuss about being transported by chopper to the Veterans Memorial Medical Center (VMMC), former president (and prisoner) Joseph “Erap” Estrada” scored several points against GMA during a GMA NewsTV interview. Erap commented that GMA was Read More …
Tags 2 Mupas ‘emissaries’ in extortion attempt BY JEAN FERNANDO MANILA BULLETIN MANILA, Philippines — Former Commission on Elections (Comelec) Chairman Benjamin Abalos, charged with electoral sabotage, was given five days to explain why he should not be cited for contempt Friday after rocking the courtroom with accusations of extortion by supposed “emissaries” of the sitting judge in Pasay City. Abalos lawyer, Atty. Brigido Dulay, Read More …
By Joyce Pangco Pañares and Rio N. Araja Manila Standard Today FORMER President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo will enjoy the relative comfort of the Veterans Memorial Medical Center in Quezon City only for as long as her medical condition will require it, an official has said. “It is not clear to us how long her stay at [the Veterans hospital] would last. That would depend on the Read More …
Source: The Philippine Star MANILA, Philippines – Police safely transferred former President and now Pampanga Rep. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo from the St. Luke’s Medical Center (SLMC) in Taguig City to the Veterans Memorial Medical Center (VMMC) in Quezon City this afternoon. A white coaster carrying Mrs. Arroyo left the SLMC around 3:30 p.m. and arrived at the VMMC around 4:08 p.m., heavily escorted by a number Read More …
BY RAYMOND AFRICA MALAYA ‘I’ve been demonized; my conscience is clear’ SECURITY measures are in place for the transfer today of Gloria Arroyo from the St. Luke’s Medical Center in Taguig City to the Veterans Memorial Medical Center in Quezon City. The PNP would not say, for security reasons, what time Arroyo will be brought to the VMMC. Arroyo will be transferred by land but Read More …
It seems that the justices are fishing for technicalities to declare the DOJ-Comelec panel unconstitutional; thus, allowing Gloria to leave the country to avoid prosecution. — PERRY DIAZ SC questions why GMA given only 10 days to file counter-affidavit By Joel R. San Juan BusinessMirror THE Supreme Court on Thursday questioned the Office of the Solicitor General (OSG) on whether it accorded former President and Read More …
By Perseus Echeminada and Sheila Crisostomo The Philippine Star Former Comelec Chairman Benjamin Abalos speaks to reporters outside a Pasay City court just hours before the Comelec filed an electoral sabotage case against him. Edd Gumban MANILA, Philippines – The Commission on Elections (Comelec) yesterday filed an electoral sabotage case against former poll chief Benjamin Abalos for the alleged manipulation of election results in Read More …