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Statement on the President’s address to the Gloriagate tapes

Statement on the President’s address to the Gloriagate tapes

 “ Mother of All Fantaserye”, leftist group says on PGMA’s

coming out party on Gloriagate scandal

President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo finally broke her silence on the controversial wiretapped tapes containing an alleged conversation between her and Commission on Elections (Comelec) Commissioner Virgilio Garcillano suggesting election fraud in the last year’s presidential elections.

The embattled President Arroyo admitted that the voice on the much talked about tape belongs to her and issued a statement almost apologizing to all Filipinos for the late admission. However, Mrs. Arroyo did not admit that about charges that she committed massive poll fraud to ensure her election victory in the May 10, 2004 elections but expressed readiness to subject herself to an impeachment trial just like deposed President Joseph Estrada.

Commenting on the 7 p.m presidential address, rabid critics belonging to the left-leaning fisherfolk alliance Pambansang Lakas ng Kilusang Mamamalakaya ng Pilipinas (Pamalakaya) dismissed the presidential address on the controversial Gloriagate tapes as nothing but a political stage show.

“ It is the Mother of All Fantaserye that could give the likes of ‘Darna’, ‘Encantadia’ and ‘Kampanerang Kuba’ a run for their own money and ratings.  Mrs. Arroyo and her paid propagandists in Malacañang are treating our people to an endless guessing game, cheap thrills and feel good roller coaster rides at the expense of truth and justice”, said Pamalakaya national chair Fernando Hicap in a press statement.

The militant leader further described the “coming out party of Mrs. Arroyo” as grand plot to bring all anti-Arroyo forces to the bait of “ impeachment process” and later let her cabals of pro-Arroyo politician –hooligans to do the work in throwing out the impeachment complaint through sheer tyranny of numbers.

“ The game plan of the ruling Macapagal-Arroyo syndicate is to admit the voice but not the crimes of poll fraud and force all anti-Arroyo forces to bring their fight to the House of Representatives via the impeachment process, which is expected to by nailed down with finality by the Arroyo rubber stamp Congress”, Pamalakaya’s Hicap added.

The leftist leader said President Arroyo decided to admit that the female voice in the wiretapped conversation was hers to downplay the political furor created by long-standing silence on the issue. Hicap said the act was similar to what former US President Bill Clinton did when the latter was implicated in a sexual scandal with White House staff Monica Lewinsky.

“ This ala Bill Clinton escapade of La Gloria will not change the gathering political storm. It is all system go for the Oust Arroyo movement. The people’s call and collective sentiment for Mrs. Arroyo to step down is non-negotiable, period, period, period”, Pamalakaya said.

The militant group said the announcement of President Arroyo admitting the female voice on the controversial tape belongs to her would not dampen the raging protest in the National Capital Region (NCR) and other parts of the country.

Leftist activists would join other anti-Arroyo forces including followers of the late actor Fernando Poe Jr. and deposed President Joseph Estrada on July 25 during the scheduled State of the Nation Address (SONA) of embattled President Arroyo. #

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