Power fight EDITORIAL 02/16/2010

Power fight EDITORIAL Click to enlarge 02/16/2010 Lakas loyalists are now preparing the public into accepting as inevitable the prospect of Gloria Arroyo as the future Speaker of the House of Representatives, following her certain victory at the polls as representative of Pampanga’s Second District. It is being said that the Speaker is a sitting president’s choice. Whoever the President wants the House to elect as Speaker, gets elected by the majority of the House members under orders from the Malacañang tenant. This may have been so in the past, so goes another argument, but this time around, it may well be the House members that will decide on whom they want to lead them — if the sitting president is at odds with Gloria and her party mates in Congress and if she and her congressmen have the numbers to get her elected.... MORE Source:  The Daily Tribune ALTERNATE URL: http://www.classicposters.com/commentary/20100216com1.html

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