Many ifs in jail possibility for Gloria, says Saludo
06/27/2010 By Aytch S. de la Cruz Malacañang yesterday twitted former President Joseph Estrada yesterday for his remark that outgoing President Arroyo should be sent to jail if judged guilty by the courts should the plunder charges that will be filed against her prosper once she steps down from the presidency. Estrada reportedly expressed in a television interview that Arroyo might as well traverse the rough roads he was forced to take after being charged with plunder following his unconstitutional ouster in 2001 that made her rise to presidency. “No one is above the law, they did it to me why not to GMA,” he said in the interview. Estrada was accused and sent to jail for more than six years on a plunder case based on flimsy charges. He was convicted in 2007 but was subsequently granted a presidential pardon. Arroyo spokesman Ricardo Saludo, in his final news briefing aired live on Radyo ng Bayan yesterday, placed great emphasis on the word “if” in Estrada’s statement while implying that Arroyo certainly would let herself go under the process should the evidence presented against her become sufficient. .... MORE Source: The Daily Tribune URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/headlines/20100627hed2.html |
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