“Walk for truth.” President Estrada joins Mayors Jejomar Binay of Makati and Alfredo Lim of Manila, former budget secretary Ben Diokno and former senator Ernesto Maceda at another expression of “communal action” at the University of Makati in West Rembo.
'Probe Gloria treason'
'Sellout' of sovereignty seen for dirty Chinese loans
BY JP LOPEZ
DETAINED Sen. Antonio Trillanes IV
has filed a bill to investigate the "Spratly deal"
reportedly entered into by the Philippine and Chinese
governments.
Quoting Malaya publisher Amado
Macasaet, Trillanes said President Arroyo might have
committed treason if she signed the "Spratly deal" in
exchange for "loans attended by bribery and corruption."
A source has told Macasaet that under
the Spratly deal, China would be allowed to explore
territorial waters of the Philippines.
AN interfaith prayer rally scheduled
this afternoon in Makati City is expected to gather at
least 50,000 participants, including former President
Joseph Estrada and Bro. Eddie Villanueva, head of the
Jesus is Lord Movement.
Estrada, after a "Mass for Truth"
yesterday at the University of Makati, said he supports
the call of fellow former President Corazon Aquino for the
resignation of President Arroyo.
The rally, with the theme "Katotohanan,
Katarungan at Pagbabago" and organized by the Church-based
group Solidarity Philippines, will be attended by
militant, student, opposition and other sectoral groups
that have been calling for Arroyo's ouster on the ground
she has lost the moral authority to govern.
SEN. Joker Arroyo yesterday twitted President
Arroyo for creating a legal team to study the possibility of
revoking Executive Order 464, saying the team's members "are the
very same officials who have been misinterpreting the Supreme
Court ruling" on the order.
"What is there to revoke, or to study, or to
revisit, or to re-examine in EO 464?" Senator Arroyo said,
saying that the Supreme Court has already laid down the
parameters of what the Executive and Congress can and cannot do
on congressional investigations.
The Supreme Court has ruled as
unconstitutional portions of EO 464 which required key officials
to seek permission of the President before attending legislative
inquiries. But the tribunal upheld the right of Cabinet members
to invoke executive privilege when called before the legislature
on issues that could jeopardize national security and diplomatic
relations.
