Another civil society group has joined the snowballing campaign against the rule of powerful political families, launching a signature drive in Baclaran Church, where similar movements that changed the course of the country’s history had been initiated decades ago.
Saying the public interest, editorial independence, and even the health of political candidates would be at stake, the president of the Kapisanan ng mga Brodkaster sa Pilipinas said on Wednesday that it would contest the Comelec rules on airtime limits, prior notice and the right to reply in the Supreme Court within the week.
The temporary restraining order the Supreme Court slapped on the government’s travel ban on former president Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo was “the trigger point” that caused the deterioration of relations between the executive branch and the judiciary, Malacañang said on Thursday.
Chief Justice Renato Corona calmly took, on Monday, President Aquino’s verbal attacks directed at him and the justices of the Supreme Court over their supposed questionable actions.
The supremacy of the state’s police powers over individual rights during the martial law era was reflected in Justice Secretary Leila de Lima’s insistence that former President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo’s right to travel could be infringed under the same principle.
Former President and now Pampanga Representative Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo may still get a reprieve if the Supreme Court declares as unconstitutional the joint Commission on Elections and the Department of Justice (Comelec-DOJ) panel that recommended her prosecution for alleged electoral fraud, officials said.
Don’t shoot the messenger, please.
If constitutionalist lawyer Homobono Adaza had his way, he wouldn’t allow former president Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo to leave the country.
Former president and now Pampanga Representative Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo petitioned the Supreme Court, on Thursday, to direct Justice Secretary Leila de Lima and immigration officials to respect its order allowing her to travel abroad.
At least 30 opposition members in the House of Representatives, led by Minority Leader Edcel Lagman, on Thursday called for an inquiry into the November 15 barring of Pampanga Representative Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo and her husband from leaving the country despite a Supreme Court ruling upholding their constitutional right to travel abroad.
President Aquino left for Bali, Indonesia, on Thursday with instructions to his Cabinet to maintain the peace in case of developments in the ongoing clash between the Palace and the Supreme Court on former President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo’s bid to travel abroad pending her investigation for plunder and election sabotage.
Interior and Local Government Secretary Jesse Robredo said on Thursday that he would be seeking legal advice on what the police would do should the Supreme Court seek its assistance to implement the order stopping the Department of Justice from enforcing its watch list order against former President and now Pampanga Representative Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo.
The Manila International Airport Authority (MIAA) yesterday denied allegations by the camp of former President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo that she was not extended due courtesy when she and her husband attempted to leave the country on Tuesday night.
