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Pamalakaya blames JdV over emerging Arroyo bloc in House of Reps.
“House Speaker acting like a first rate political prostitute”

The militant fisherfolk group Pambansang Lakas ng Kilusang Mamamalakaya ng Pilipinas (Pamalakaya) on Wednesday blamed House Speaker Jose de Venecia in what the opposition called an emerging Arroyo bloc in the Lower House, accusing de Venecia of engaging in first rate political prostitution.

“He is nothing but a first rate political prostitute who paved the way to the selection of presidential son Pampanga Rep. Jose Miguel Arroyo and President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo’s brother-in-law Ignacio Arroyo as chair of the House Committees on energy and natural resources respectively,” the left-leaning fisherfolk group said in a press statement.

Pamalakaya national chair Fernando Hicap asked: “Where is political decency here? That is not the sense of the House, much more the sense of the people. This is the sense of the ruling political mafia in the House of Representatives.”

The lower House on Monday continued its organization with the election of the chairpersons of more committees and the members of the chamber’s powerful committees. The election of the presidential son and the brother-in-law as chairs of the two influential committees came in the wake of looming power and water crisis facing the country.

“The House of De Venecia gave the chairmanships of the two committees to the Arroyos for supporting the speakership of the ungentleman speaker from Pangasinan. The environment community must lodge their strongest protest ever against JdV and the Arroyos for making a mockery out of the people’s search for pro-people energy and pro-environment development programs,” Pamalakaya’s Hicap stressed.

The militant group said the Arroyos will serve as the House counterparts to the appointment of former Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) Secretary Angelo Reyes to the Department of Energy (DoE) and former Manila Mayor Lito Atienza to the DENR.

“The Reyes-Atienza-Mikey Arroyo-Iggy Arroyo quartet completes the casting coup of people that would work for Mrs. Arroyo’s grand plan to sell the country’s source of energy and national patrimony to all time plunderers both here and abroad,” Pamalakaya said.

The militant group said affected sectors and other environment groups planning to submit petitions to the lower house to investigate issues related to energy and natural resources will ask the Arroyos to inhibit themselves from the investigation to put credibility to any congressional inquiry undertaken by the committees on energy and natural resources.

“They have to inhibit themselves. We don’t want lawmakers like them with checkered and corrupt past and with close working relationships both personally and politically speaking with Malacañang to work on the cases. That’s suicide,” Pamalakaya said.

Pamalakaya is set to approach a number of lawmakers and concerned committees at the House of Representatives regarding their request to investigate the mushrooming of oil and gas exploration in the Visayan Sea which had threatened the marine environment, and the health and livelihood of small fisherfolk surrounding the Visayas basins.

The militant group would ask members of the House of Representatives to enact a law that would either impose a moratorium or total ban of all oil and gas explorations in the Tañon Strait, Cebu-Bohol Strait, Northeastern Leyte, Antique, Palawan, Mindoro Occidental and Maguindanao.

“How can we have an objective investigation and assessment of these oil and gas hunts all over the country if we have the likes of Reyes, Atienza, Mikey and Iggy? We have a perfect storm and uncontrollable disaster in the making,” Pamalakaya said. #

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