Senate panel okays Noy’s amnesty proclamation
By Angie M. Rosales 10/19/2010The Senate has effectively approved on committee level Presidential Proclamation 50, which granted amnesty to military soldiers and junior officers accused of attempting to overthrow the Arroyo administration. This will be put to a vote in the upper chamber for concurrence when Congress resumes session next month.
“It’s been approved in the committee level. It will now be brought to the plenary for spon-sorship and debates... It will be put to a vote,” Sen. Teofisto Guingona, also the chairman of the committee on peace, unification and recon-ciliation, told reporters after yesterday’s first and last joint hearing by the Senate committee on rules.
He also assailed former President and now Pampanga Rep. Gloria Arroyo for cheating her way to the presidency, leading to nine years of oppression that forced some soldiers to stage military uprisings against her admi-nistration.
“I would also like to state that it is my opinion that while many say they violated the law, but in the view of many, they were following the law. The Constitution provides that the President of the Philippines shall be elected by the people. Gloria Arroyo was not elected, she cheated her way to the elections, therefore she had no legitimate claim to the office of the President. She was a mere usurper who took away, and stole the Office of the President. Therefore, it was incumbent upon the officers of the Armed Forces to remove the usurper who had no legitimate claim on the office of the presidency. They were acting in compliance, not in defiance, of the Constitution,” Guingona said..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
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