Palace admits GMA’s budget disbursements legal By Aytch S. de la Cruz 07/29/2010

Passes off Noy’s misleading claims as Arroyo’s ‘lack of prudence’

Palace admits GMA’s budget disbursements legal


By Aytch S. de la Cruz

07/29/2010

Are their faces red, but they are still trying to save face by injecting a morality issue.

Malacañang yesterday admitted that there was nothing anomalous after all in President Aquino’s claimed “shock and awe” expose against his predecessor, former President now Pampanga Rep. Gloria Arroyo, with her budget appropriations and expenditures when she was still the Chief Executive, as all these have all been accounted for by the 14th Congress.

This was the admission issued yesterday by Department of Budget and Management (DBM) Undersecretary Mario Relampagos who served as presidential spokesman Edwin Lacierda’s guest of the day at a Malacañang press conference, for him to provide explanations in light of House Minority Leader Albay Rep. Edcel Lagman’s contra-Sona statements last Tuesday.

Neither truth nor facts “exposed” could be foundin Aquino’s maiden State of the Nation Address, as the speech was both “defective in what it said” and “deficient in what it failed to say,”Edcel Lagman said as he delivered a contra-Sona.

Lagman pointed out that the minority criticized the Sona as a means by which to tell Aquino that the figures and other information that he had stated in his speech were both wrong and misleading..... MORE


Source:  The Daily Tribune

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