Arroyo ordering appointees not to give up posts — solon
By Angie M. Rosales 06/11/2010 President Arroyo has been doing her rounds, practically giving her so-called “midnight ap-pointees,” a call and telling them not to resign. Sen. Francis Pangilinan yesterday said it was not only Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) Chief of Staff Gen. Delfin Bangit who received such a call from Arroyo but a number of officials as well. “Up to now, I was told, she’s been doing those ‘midnight calls,’ not just midnight appointments. The information that we have been receiving is that she’s been giving them calls, her appointees, telling them not to resign,” he told reporters during the Kapihan sa Senado news forum. Pangilinan claimed the other day it was Arroyo’s supposed phone call to Bangit that made the AFP chief of staff do a sudden turnaround on his decision to resign his post. “The information I’m receiving is that it is the President herself who is talking to a number of appointees,” Pangilinan insisted. “That’s the legacy she’ll be known for. Even toward the end of her term, the legacy she’s leaving is that of giving phone calls to issue illegal orders. “She is building a phalanx of GMA loyalists who, when she steps down, she hopes will continue to rally behind her and protect her back, thereby creating more problems for the incoming administration,” he stressed. Source: The Daily Tribune URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/headlines/20100611hed3.html |
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