Tag: Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

Speaker Gloria Macapagal Arroyo Defends The Country From IPU Meddling

October 23, 2018October 23, 2018 P. Farol 13 Comments

Supporters of President Rodrigo Roa Duterte may see House Speaker Gloria Macapagal Arroyo’s decision to push for the withdrawal of the Philippines from the Inter Parliamentary Union as proof her strong alliance with the current administration, but I see it as the only correct stand against the meddling of this international lawmakers’ body with our…

Government, Politics

Gloria Forever Scare Is Just A Yellow Ploy To Derail Federalism

October 10, 2018October 10, 2018 P. Farol 9 Comments

Yellows worship Cory’s 1987 Constitution as if it were the stone tablets on which God himself wrote his ten commandments. So much so that any person proposing any change in the 1987 constitution is automatically demonized and accused of wanting to establish another “tyrannical regime”. Thus, when Raissa Robles falsely claimed that House Speaker Gloria…

Charter Change

Hate For Gloria Or Hate For Aquino Incompetency?

July 25, 2018 Gogs 49 Comments

Oh, how sweet it is to see the yellows squirm even more. They hate Gloria and on Monday, July 23 there she is taking center stage at a SONA eight years after she was last president. If all you did was pay attention to the SONAs for 2010-2015 you would have constantly heard her name…

Politics

Just Shut Up and Sing, Leila De Lima!

July 20, 2016July 21, 2016 Hector Gamboa 30 Comments

So it appears that justice has finally been given to former President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo (GMA) after the Supreme Court of the Philippines has acquitted her for the plunder charges the administration of her successor, former President Noynoy Aquino (Noynoy), has filed. More than 4 years of GMA’s life was unjustly taken from her when she…

Politics

Who Among the 2016 Candidates Will Hold BS Aquino Accountable After His Term?

December 4, 2015December 5, 2015 MidwayHaven 17 Comments

Shortly after a popular uprising in 2001, Philippine President Joseph “Erap” Estrada was removed from his position and replaced by Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, who before that point was the Vice President. Under pursuit by Arroyo and the Supreme Court, Estrada was arrested for government plunder and found guilty after a lengthy trial, though Arroyo eventually pardoned him…

Crime, Development, Government, Politics, The South

#GodSaveOurDemocracy From A Roxas Regime (Part Two)

November 5, 2015November 5, 2015 P. Farol 30 Comments

(This continues the fictional reconstruction of conversations I’ve had with several political operators a couple of weeks ago. There are many ways of telling the truth, sometimes it’s just more interesting to point at it with what is essentially a lie.) (Read Part One Here) “The very essence of democracy is the freedom to choose. But…

Development, Government, Politics

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