Arroyo pleads not guilty on electoral sabotage rap
By: Jamie Marie ElonaMiko MorelosTetch TorresFormer President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo yesterday entered a plea of not guilty to charges of electoral sabotage.
Former President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo yesterday entered a plea of not guilty to charges of electoral sabotage.
A convoy of two white coaster vans, one of which is expected to have former President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, and security are near the Pasay regional trial court.
A security convoy with two white coaster vans left the Veterans Memorial Medical Center in Quezon City early Thursday but it wasn’t clear whether former President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo was in any of the vehicles.
The ground commander for the security force assigned to maintain order around the vicinity of Veterans Memorial Medical Center has arrived and is now inside the room of former President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, a police officer said Thursday.
Security tightened Thursday around the vicinity of the government-run hospital where former President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo has been confined as she prepares to leave for her scheduled arraignment before a local court.
Former president and now Pampanga Representative Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo is expected to plead not guilty when she appears in court on Thursday for the first time since being charged with rigging an election.
A lawmaker on Wednesday said that Malacañang’s move to reform “sin taxes” should strike a balance between the state’s goal of increasing revenues and the local industry’s ability to survive with higher costs.
Security will be tight Thursday at the Pasay Regional Trial Court in preparation for the arraignment of former president Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo for electoral sabotage.
Ombudsman prosecutors have contested the plea of Navy officers charged with the murder of Ensign Philip Pestaño to transfer their case to a military tribunal, but also said they were willing to have the case transferred to the appropriate court if it finds that the Sandiganbayan has no jurisdiction over the case.
Based on the schedule announced Wednesday, the wake of Negros Occidental Representative Ignacio “Iggy” Arroyo will take place in three areas following his arrival from Ninoy Aquino International Airport—the house of Aleli Arroyo, the ancestral house of the Arroyos and Bacolod City, then back to Aleli’s house before interment on Saturday.
Last year, former Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) Governor Zaldy Ampatuan offered to testify against his own father and brother in the Maguindanao massacre.
Justice Secretary Leila de Lima has vowed an “honest to goodness” investigation into the death in Antipolo City of San Beda law student Marvin Reglos in suspected hazing rites of the Lambda Rho Beta—the allied fraternity of her own sorority.
Should Chief Justice Renato Corona be removed from office in connection with a “collegial” Supreme Court resolution allowing former President and now Pampanga Representative Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo to seek medical treatment abroad last year?
