Pseudo opposition bets FRONTLINE Ninez Cacho-Olivares 03/16/2010

Pseudo opposition bets

FRONTLINE Ninez Cacho-Olivares 03/16/2010 Presidential and vice presidential candidates love to project themselves as opposition or “independent” candidates, even when clearly, they were hardly that, from 1998 to 2005, with some even allied with the administration up till 2009. It should be asked: They are in opposition to whom, Gloria Arroyo and her administration? But the facts show that they — Noynoy Aquino, Manny Villar, Mar Roxas, Loren Legarda and Ralph Recto, among others, were hardly in opposition to Gloria Arroyo.  In 2000, Villar, Aquino, Legarda and even Senators Francis Pangilinan and Franklin Drilon were certainly not in opposition to Gloria, since they not only moved unconstitutionally, to have then sitting President Joseph Estrada tried in the Senate but also stage-managed a coup d’etat against him when it was clear that they wouldn’t be able to get the numbers to convict Estrada.... MORE Source:  The Daily Tribune ALTERNATE URL: http://www.tribune.net.ph/commentary/20100316com2.html

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